iV CONTENTS. 



XX. Remarkable Escapes of Schooners Onward and Seddie C. Pyle on 

 Georges Loss of Schooners A.R.Andrews, and Rescue of her Crew 

 Lost in the Fog Rescued from the Jaws of Death Comprising the 

 Details of Narrow Escapes by the Fishermen . . . 98 



XXI. The Pirate Tacony's Raid upon the Fishermen .... 105 



XXII. A Valuable Branch of Industry 107 



XXIII. Recapture of Schooner E. A. Horton from the Custody of the 

 Dominion Government A Daring Act by a Yankee Skipper and his 

 Crew 108 



XXIV. The Severe Storm of 1839 115 



XXV. Fishermen's children Playing on the Beach 117 



XXVI. The Cape Ann Fishermen of To-Day 119 



XXVII. How Harry G. came to Sign the Pledge 123 



XXVIII. Picking the Nets and Trawls, in which we find a good haul of 

 Sketches, Incidents and Facts, relative to the Fisherman and his Occu- 

 pation 125 



XXIX. Dashings of Spray from Wavelets of Maritime Poetry by Home 

 Authors 129 



XXX. A Musical Fisherman His First Violin Early Struggles His 

 Cruise in The Rival Shipwrecked Yankee Fishermen Giving Con- 

 certs in the Provinces 149 



XXXI. Loss of Schooner Neptune's Bride Two of the Crew saved 

 Eighteen hours on the Mast-Head A Perilous Passage . . . 153 



XXXII. Leaves from the Log Book of Captain James Pattillo How He 

 served a Dominion Officer who Boarded the Schooner Abigail Puts 

 to Sea in the Teeth of a Gale and outsails the Cutter How he gets a 

 load of Herring for Schooner Tiger A Fearful Time on Georges in 

 Schooner Alexander 166 



XXXIII. " Here comes Father's Vessel" 164 



XXXIV. Appendix 166 



XXXV. The Terrible Gale of Sunday, August 24th, 1873. List of the 

 Lost Men and Vessels 167 



XXXVI. Sum Total of Losses for the past Forty-three Years . . . 172 



