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There is no doubt that this somewhat singular occurrence took 
place when the vessel was struck as Captain Harwood de- 
scribes.” 
Forest and Stream of June 24th, 1875, recorded the following 
incident : 
“On Wednesday of last week a swordfish attacked the fishing 
boat of Capt. ‘D. D. Thurlow while he was hauling mackerel 
nets off Fire Island, thrust its sword clear through the bottom, 
and stuck fast, while the fishermen took several half-hitches 
around its body and so secured it. It was afterwards brought 
to Fulton Market,and found to weigh three hundred and ninety 
pounds. Its sword measured three feet and seven inches, and its 
entire length was over eleven feet. The stuffed skin will adorn 
the Central Park Museum.” 
The Landmark, of Norfolk, Va., also mentioned a similar oc- 
currence in February, 1876 : 
“The brig P. M. Tinker, Captain Bernard, previously men- 
tioned as having arrived here from Richmond, leaking, for 
repairs, has been hauled up on the ways at Graves’ ship-yard. 
On examination it was discovered that the leak was caused by a 
swordfish, the sword being found broken off forward. the bands, 
about sixteen feet abaft the forefoot. The fish, in striking the 
vessel, must have come with great force, as the sword penetrated 
the copper sheathing, a four-inch birch plank, and through the 
timbers about six inches—in all about ten inches. It occurred 
on the morning of the 23d of December, when the brig was 
eighteen days out from Rio, and in the neighborhood of Cape 
St. Roque. She was pumped about four o’clock in the morning, 
and found free of water. About six o’clock the same morning 
she was again pumped, when water was obtained, and on exam- 
ination it was found that she had made ten inches of water. The 
men were kept steady at the pumps until her arrival at Rich- 
mond, and while there, and on her trip here.” 
Mr. Willard Nye sends me this note : 
“A few years ago Captain Dyer, of New Bedford, struck a 
swordfish from a thirty-foot boat, forty miles southwest of No- 
man’s Land, threw overboard the keg, tacked, and stood by to 
jhe windward of it. When nearly abreast of it the man at the 
