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FISHERMEN'S OWN BOOK. 



Perilous Experiences. — Allen Maginnis, of sch. Centennial, was drowned 

 by the capsizing of a dory on Grand Bank, Jan. 20, 1878. His companion 

 in the dory, John McLeod, succeeded in getting on the bottom of the frail 

 craft, but this afforded a very insecure hold, and while all the other dories 

 belonging to the vessel were provided with beckets fastened to the plugs 

 for cases of such emergency, this particular one was not thus furnished. 

 McLeod retained his hold as best he could, being sometimes washed off, 

 until seeing a halibut-killer afloat a short distance away, he swam off and 

 secured it, and pounding out the plug, was able to thrust one of his fingers 

 through the hole in the bottom of the dory, and thus maintain his hold. In 

 this manner, changing from one finger to another, he held his own with 

 great difficulty for about two hours, when his cries were heard by some com- 

 panions in another dory, who rowed to his assistance and took him off in an 

 exhausted condition. Several of his fingers were badly chafed, and it is 

 doubtful if he could have held on much longer. 



Nov. 6, 1878, Thomas King and Charles Hubbley, of sch. Annie C. Nor- 

 wood, on an off-shore codfishing trip, were out in their dories, when a squall 

 came on and the dory capsized so suddenly as to throw them ten feet from 

 her. They managed to swim to the overturned dory and to get upon her 

 bottom, but King was greatly exhausted and soon succumbed. Hubbley 

 succeeded in maintaining his position by getting a finger in the plug-hole, 

 holding on for two hours, until his finger was nearly cut off, when he was 

 taken off by sch. Rutherford B. Hayes, greatly exhausted. 



Lost and Found. — A Happy Surprise. — Alexander McEachen and Au- 

 gustus Armstrong, two of the crew of sch. Mary F. Chisholni of this port, 

 left that vessel during a fog, May 9, 1878, to attend to their trawls on West- 

 ern Bank. They got out of hearing of the fog-horn and were unable to find 

 their vessel. After rowing for twenty-four hours they fell in with a French 

 fishing vessel and were taken on board, where they remained two days'. 

 They were subsequently transferred to sch. Viking, and arrived home the 

 day before the Chisholni, and were the first to hail that vessel as she came 

 up the harbor with her flag at half-mast in token of their loss. The flag 

 was speedily flying from the mast-head in rejoicing at their deliverance, and 

 their shipmates congratulated them heartily on their fortunate escape. 



A Hard Pull in a Dory. — Two of the crew of sch. Ida A. Thurlow 

 of Eastport, Me., named Alex. S. Morise and Thomas T. Goodwin, were 

 lost from that vessel in May, 1878, while attending to their trawls in a dory, 

 and after an exposure of eighty-two hours, without compass, food or water, 

 by making a perilous voyage of one hundred and twenty miles, succeeded 

 in landing, through fearful breakers, forty-five miles east of Halifax. 



