CONTENTS 



Fishermen's Superstitions, . . . . 



The Old Fort and Gloucester Harbor in 1837 (illustrated), 



Foreign Commerce of Gloucester (illustrated). 



Fishermen Coming into Port. From the Home of the Fish to the 



Table of the Consumer (illustrated), 



The Regatta (illustrated), 



A Night in Boston Bay, 



Truthful and Startling Accounts of Tough Times, etc. (illustrated), 



The Frenchman's Stew and the Disgusted Irishmen, 



Dory Voyages across the Atlantic (illustrated). 



On Board a Mackerel Catcher, ..... 



The Merry, Merry Mackerel Catchers (illustrated), . 



Saving the Cable, 



A Summer Trip to Georges (illustrated), . . ., , 



Rob's First Cruise (illustrated), , 



Lost in the Fog (illustrated), 



Crippled on the " Home Stretch " (illustrated), 



The December Gales of 1876 (illustrated), . ... 



Fearful Experience on Board Sch. Howard, 



Thacher's Island, ........ 



Foundering of Sch. Almon Bird, 



The Harbor Bar (illustrated), 



Ninety-Three Voyages to Surinam (illustrated), 

 Recollections of a Veteran Fisherman, .... 

 Making a Harbor in a Snow Storm, .... 



An Old Boat (illustrated), . . . ... 



Hand-Line Mackerel Fishing, 



"Setting Under "Sail," 



[n a Fog on the Banks (illustrated), .... 



Lines on the Loss of Sch. Guy Cunningham and in Memory of her 



Master, Capt. Daniel O'Brien, 



Around the Wharves of Old Gloucester Half a Century Ago, 



The Jolly Yachtsman (illustrated), ..... 



The Haddock Fisheries — Then and Now, ... 



A Mackerel Catcher Dressing Her Fare by Moonlight (illustrated), 



Frightened by the Moon, . . . , 



Gloucester Harbor (illustrated), . . . 



Adventures of Capt. Richard Murphy, .... 



The Open Sea, 



(Gloucester's Exhibition at the Centennial, 



The Widow's Appeal to the Winds and Sea (illustrated), 



l*icking the Nets and Trawls (illustrated), 



A Fishing Party (illustrated), - . 



"Not a Bene," 



' 1 'he Mackerel Pocket, or "Spiller," .... 



On the Loss of the "Royal George," .... 



A Banker Discharging Her Fare (illustrated), . 



Loss of Life and Vessel Property from January i to April i, 1882, 



List of Vessels Comprising the Gloucester Fishing Fleet, and their 



Owners or Fitters, ./ . . . . . . . . 263 



