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trading vesels of Manila, Singapore "fast boat,"Travancore 

 racing boat, Japanese trading junks and smaller craft. 



Photograjph of Brazilian "cataniarans" in the collection 

 of the P. A. S. Several fovms of these raft-like vessels 

 pecnliar to tlie region of the Amazon. 



Framed document — a pass permitting the American 

 schooner "Jack" to enter the Mediterranean sea in 1797, 

 signed by President John Adams, etc. 



Clearance paper. 



Dimtmsions of the frigate "Essex" made out in the band 

 writing of Enos Briggs, the bnilder, in 1799. 



BarTc''Glide.'' An oil painting. Loaned hy Mr. James 

 B. Curwen, 



The "Glide" was built in Salem in 1861 for Messrs. John Bertram, Curwen and 

 others, and was engaged in the Zanzibar trade. 



Brig " Mexican,''^ attacked b}'^ pirates. An oil painting 

 by George Southard. Loaned by Mr, John Batiis, 



In August, 1832, the brig "Mexican" left Salem for Rio .Janeiro liaving on board 

 $20,000 in specie. On Sept. 20 she was captured by the piratical Spanish schooner 

 "Pinda," rifled of her specie, her crew lastened between decks and firfe set to tlie 

 vessel. The crew of the "Mexican" managed to get on deck and extinguish the 

 fire, repair damages, and Oct. 12 reached Salem. Aug. 27, 1834, the H. B. M. "Sav- 

 age" arrived at Salem with sixteen of the pii-ates as prisoners. Five of them were 

 hanged June 11, 1835. The owner of this painting, Mr. John Battis of Salem, is one 

 of the thirteen men who formed the crew of the "Mexican." The "Mexican" was 

 built in Salem in 1824 by Elijah Briggs for Joseph Peabody and registered 227 tone. 



ßhip ^^Mt. Vernon,'" off Gibraltar. An original water- 

 color painted in 1799. Loaned by Messrs. Bopes Brothers, 



The "Mt. Vernon" was built by Retire Becket in 1798 for Elias Haskett Derby 

 and registered 398 tons. Equipped with twenty guns and a crew of fifty men, under 

 the command of E. H. Derby, Jr., sailed from Salem with a cargo of sugar. Off 

 Cape St. Vincent she was attacked by a fleet of French vessels from which she 

 escaped by superior sailing and fighting qunlities. She rcturned from Naples in 

 1800 with a cargo of wines and silks. See Osgood's Commerce of Salem, Hist. 

 Essex Co., Vol. I. 



Ship ^^Mt. Vernon'^ escaping from the French fleet. 



Loaned by Messrs. Boj)es Brothers, 



Ooasters in Salem Harbor. A water-color sketch by 



Miss Mary K. Robinson. Loanedby Mr. John Ilobinson. 



During the continuance of an easterly gale coasting schooners put into Salem as 

 a harbor of rcfuge, where tliey remain for favorable wind and weather. The sketch 

 represeuts a fleet of such vessels gettiug ready to sali on u nioruing aller a storm. 



