INDEX 



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Abalone fishery 37,38,40 



Abalones, dried 37,38,40 



shells of. 37 



Abby Dodge, schooner, struck by tornado 111 



Accidents considered unlucky 62 



Aid societies 127,128 



Alabama, fishermen of 5,27 



Alameda County, Califomia, Chinese in 39 



Alaska, fishermen of 5, 6 



American Coast Pilot 102 



American fishermen 7, 11, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 42, 46 



Amusements of fishermen 26,74 



Anchor, breaking out of 130, 135 



Anchoring a vessel, method of..^ 130,133 



Andrew Leighton, schooner, accidentto. 106 



Antarctic seal fishery 61,93, 106 



dangers of 126 



Appalachicola, fishermen of 25 



Spanish Creoles at 25 



Arctic whaling, dangers of - 117 



Ardent spirits on vessels 8 



Atwood, Capt. N. E., autobiography of 149 



lecturesby 57 



Austrian fishermen 6,35,36 



Authority of skipper of vessel 98 



Avarice of Chinese 40 



Azoreans at home 31 



dress of 32 



Azores, destruction of vineyards at 31 



fishermen from.. 6 



habits and customs at--- 31,32 



reason for emigration from 31 



whale fishery at 152 



Babson, Capt, F. J., on patriotism of fishermen -. 82 



on provincial fisheries 14 



Bahama fishermen x 6, 24 



Bait, capelin for 151 



clamsfor 150 



cfiiects of scarcity of - 10, 11 



manner of icing 78 



sand-eels as 155 



Baiting-stations, life at 77 



Baiting the trawls 75 



Ballads, fishermen's 50 



Bank Bradley, fishing on 156 



Bank fisheries, dangers of... .' 105 



Pao»v. 



Barometer JTv 



Barraguda, fishery for 3< 



Barrels, fish, manufacturers of 5 



Barvel or apron 68,86.87 



Bass fishery, profits of, for schools. 48 



Bay des Chaleurs fishermen 16 



Baymen of Long Island 22 



B. D. Hawkins, schooner, accidentto 108 



Bed-clothing 89 



Belgians on Great Lakes 45 



Beliefs regarding natural phenomena 63 



Berlin exhibition, fishery exhibition at 59, 89,92 



Beverly, fishermen of 79,91 



Black bass fishery 35 



Block Island, fishermen of 55 



Bluefish fishery 168 



Blunt's American Coast Pilot 102 



Boarding-houses, sailor 43,73 



Boat builders 5 



Boat-fishermen of Maine 7,10 



of Portland 11 



Boats, Chinese 40 



Italian.- 36 



repairs of 142,145 



Books read by fishermen 68,70 



Boots, called stompers 68 



fishermen's 87 



partof share for trip 155 



Bosphorus, steamer, in collision 114 



Boston, fishermen of 7 



Irishmenat ._ 21 



Bounty to vessels in cod-fishery 158 



Bowley, Captain Gideon 90,94 



Bowsprit, loss of 143 



Box-makers r 5 



Boxhaulinga schooner 130,131 



Boys, training of 50,51 



Bravery of fishermen 85 



British fishermen 7 



British Provinces, whalemen from 7 



British Provincial fishermen 6, 7, 14, 49, 54 



Boughton, Nicholas 80 



Brown's Bank, dangerous shoal on 111 



Burke, James, rescue of 124 



Buyer, dependence on lo 



Cables, loss of -. 105 



169 



