INDEX. 



177 



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Spanish fishermen of San Francisco 34 



Spars carried away 110 



loss of .-_ 142 



Speed of fishing schooners 140 



Sponge fishermen 6,26,54 



Squid, abundance of 163 



method of icing 78 



Squalls, dangers from 122 



Starbuck, on disaster to arctic whalers 217 



patriotism of fishermen 81 



Statistics of fishermen of United States 5 



Saint Croix fishermen 6 



Stearns, Silas, on fishermen of Florida 24 



Mobile fishermen 27 



New Orleans fishermen 27 



Texas fishermen 28 



Stellwagen Banks 157 



Stompers, bootscalled 68 



Stone, Livingston, on McClond Iudians 43 



Storer, D. H 162 



Horatio R 165 



Storer on fishes of Massachusetts - 164 



Story, Judge, of Marblehead 67 



Stradding the cable up 133 



Straits of Belle Isle, fish-curing at 151, 152 



Staits of Mackinac, fishing at 46 



Sturgeon, backbone of, dried ..._ 39 



Sunday, observance of 8, 154 



Sun-dogs, superstitions regarding 63 



Superstitions among fishermen 9, 28, 63, 64 



causes of 60 



Snperstitious usages 9,61 



Surf fishing by Chinese 40 



Swedes on Great Lakes 45 



Swedish fishermen 7, 21, 24, 42, 46 



Swiss fishermen on Great Lakes 45 



Swordfish attacking vessels 118 



Tacking a vessel 130 



Talleyrand on fishermen 147 



Taxation, fishermen exempt from 83 



Tax, hospital " 93 



Temperance of Cape Cod fishermen 149 



reform at Gloucester 71 



Tenement association at Gloucester 129 



Texas, fishermen of . 28 



negroes in ' 28 



Spaniards in 28 



statistics of fishermen of 5 



Thaxter, Celia, on dangers of fishermen 125 



Isles of Shoals fishermen 55 



Thaxter's Isles of Shoals, quoted 70, 125 



Thomson, Sir C. W., on Portuguese 31 



Tbroatcr, knife called 68 



Tobacco, useof 36, 92 



Tomcod, fishery for 35 



Training in navigation ^51 



Training of Cape Cod fishermen 52 



of youth 50 



Traits and customs 8 



Trawls, baiting the 75 



Treat, Capt. U. S 47 



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Tripped, danger of vessels being 109 



Triumph, schooner, sunk by collision 113 



Trustee system - 73 



Truthfulness 71 



Tucker, Samuel, public services of... 80 



Two Rivers, French Canadians at 46 



Unloading cargoes, duties of crew in '_ 73 



Unlucky days and acts 62 



Value of fishery products 5 



Velocity of wind at sea 141 



Ventura County, California, Chinese in 38 



Italians in 29 



Vessel-builders 5 



fishermen of Maine 11 



Vessels as Jonahs 61 



disasters to . 104-118 



management of 130 



ownership of 95 



Vic&s of fishermen 96 



Vil Iages, fish ing, on Great Lakes 46 



Virginia, statistics of fishermen of 5 



Vulgarity 70 



Wachusett, schooner, accident to 110 



Wages of fishermen 9,25,26, 155 



oyster shuckers 24 



Walter F. Fait, schooner, loss of 106 



Washington Territory, Austrians in 35 



Chinese in 41 



fishermenof ' 5 



Frenchmen in 35 



Greeks in 35 



Indians iu 43 



Italians in 31 



Portuguese in 34 



Watches, arrangement of 76 



Wearing aschooner 130 



Weather-bitting the cable 133 



Weather, superstitions regarding 63 



Wedding flags 18 



Wellfleet Marine Benevolent Society 127 



West Indies fishermen 24 



Whaleboats at Isles of Shoals 13 



Whaleboats used in codfishery 150 



Whale fishery, dangers of 106, 112, 116, 117 



decline of 29 



in California 33,34 



Proyineetown 1-. 152 



Whalemen 6 



Arctic 42 



British Provincial 7 



dangers to 119, 126 



discipline among 97 



diseases of 93 



English...' 7 



German 7 



Indian 14 



Irish 7 



Kanaka 7 



longevity of 94 



negro 22 



observance of Sabbath by 70 



