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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Feb. 16, 1888. 



We passed Nense River Light at noon. Here the cutter Stevens 

 passed us, bound out to assist a steamer aground near Pimlioo 

 Point. She saluted us and we dipped our colors. It was like 

 parting trom old friends. 



There is a lighthouse at Pamlico Point, hut the light has been 

 abandoned. This light is an important one, and the only mark 

 Jet t tor the point is a ship's lamp mounted on a buoy. It is visible 

 three or four miles only, and is of but small value. 'The old light- 

 house was condemned on complaint mainly of the keeper. It 

 stands on a marsh, which is overflowed at high tides. The foun- 

 dations are brick piers, and will in all probability last for years, 

 although it is certainly not a pleasant place to live in. As the 

 case now stands, instead of drawing $500 as lighthouse keeper, he 

 draws a nominal salary as caretaker, and the public loses the use 

 of the light. The problem that arises in my mind is, if the house 

 is still safe enough for the keeper to live in, why is it not safe 

 enough to display a light from? Fortunately, an' appropriation 

 will probably be made by this Congress for a new lighthouse. 

 One of the sources of income of the lightkeeper is a diamond- 

 back terrapin pound. They are quite plentiful about the point, 

 and he captures them and keeps them in the pound until the 

 market is ready for them. One of his last sales netted him WOO. 



t2:30 

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A peculiarity of Pamlico Sound quickly uqliced in an examina- 

 tion of the chart is the long fingerlike shoals making out from 

 the western shore. Long Point Shoal is over 5 miles long, Gibbs's 

 Shoal 3 miles. Gull Shoal nearly 5 miles, White Bluff Shoal 

 extends all the way across the Sound over 25 miles, but 

 there is from 7 to lift, of water over the greater part 

 of it. Brant Island Shoal is a particularly bad one; it runs 

 from Pamlico Point, to Brant Island Light nearly 15 miles; 

 about 10 miles from the point is the slue, which carries 7ft. to 

 9ft. of water, according to the tide, there is a buoy in the best 

 of it, but 200yds. to the west of it there is but 2V£ft. of water, and 

 worst of all there is no sea buoy to make and no bearings to take 

 to make it, unless Brant Island Light be made, when it may as 

 well be rounded; as the slue is 5 miles inside the point of the shoal 

 it is evident that it is an important buov. It is out of sight of 

 land except from the masthead. 



Again, the buoy is in such a condition that to a stranger it is 

 almost indistinguishable, the paint is almost gone, so that vou 

 must be within a boat's length to tell the colors, and its bottom is 

 so foul with a 3in. coat of mud, weeds and barnacles, that it is 

 sunk much deeper than it should be. This complaint applies to 

 all the buoys in the lower Sound that we passed. In going down 

 we made the inner and outer middle buoys and going up the 

 upper middle, yet had it not been for close steering, and conse- 

 quently knowing where we were, we should have not recognized 

 either. 



At East Bluff Bay we met the first of the pound nets again, this 

 is near the lower edge of Hyde county; they are prohibited further 

 down. We were given as a reason that some smart people had 

 built, some years ago t a monster pound net in the bight below 

 Cape Lookout, which is but a short distance below Beaufort, and 

 as the schools of fish came up the coast and followed the cove, 

 they were captured by millions; whereupon the smart fishermen 

 waxed rich exceedingly, but this did not suit the other fishermen 

 who were despoiled of what they considered their rightful share 

 of the fish, and so they petitioned the Legislature to prohibit 

 pound nets, which they did in several counties. 



The sharpie, as used in Virginia, New Jersey and Connecticut, 

 is rapidly being domesticated along the beach from Hatteras In- 

 let to Beaufort, but nowhere else; it is the usual flat-bottomed 

 boat with two leg-o'-mutton sails, the foresail the larger, and witn 

 a small club at the tack, which is extended by a horizontal spreet 

 or boom; it is a handy rig on the wind, speedy, and has a good 

 reputation for short work, the main point is to have a good man 

 at the foresail sheet, as she does not luff promptly in squalls. 



On the western shore the clinker-built boat is in use almost ex- 

 clusively, it is about 21ft. on keel, 5ft. beam, and 2 to 2%ft. draft, 

 rigged with a jib set flying to stem head, a spreet, lug mainsail, 

 the tack of which trims to the stern plank, and sometimes a very 

 peculiar topsail is carried. It is set with a short topmast to which 

 the topsail is laced, and this topmast is sent up alongside the 

 mast and lashed there. When set so far it almost resembles a 

 pennant set on a staff. When this topsail is carried a slightly 

 longer main spreet is carried, this spreet is now lowered until it 

 engages with a becket in the clew of the topsail, when being again 

 set up it sets both the topsail and mainsail at the same time. 



On the beach formerly only the dugout canoe was used, but now 

 the sharpie is displacing it, but it is slow work and it tears the 

 heart of the Tarheel to give up his favorite. Chas. L. Work. 



ENGLISH MISINFORMATION.— Editor Forest and Stream: As 

 usual, the London Field shows itself very poorly informed about 

 centerboards. In its issue of Feb. 4 the Field says: "It is now 

 universally admitted that a centerboard is a very powerful 

 engine, and that it is only under some exceptional conditions that 

 a deep keel vessel can successfully compete with it." Now this 

 may be "uni versally admitted" in England, where they do not 

 keep posted, but it is not only not admitted in America, but. the 

 very contrary has been demonstrated by the sailing of many 

 cutters in American waters, notably by the Pappoose and other 

 good keel designs, including even keel catboats. The trouble with 

 the English is that they are trying to blame the board for their 

 defeat in the international races instead of charging it up to bad 

 design, fie Thistle being notoriously deficient in lateral resistance, 

 a fault which is independent of keel or board altogether. If our 

 English cousins do not not look into the matter any deeper than 

 the Field and its odd lot of correspondents seem to have done, 

 they will fail with the centerboard just as they have with the 

 keel, through fundamental errors of design. The Field owes it to 

 the English public to keep the latter more accurately informed 

 concerning the comparative results obtained with keel and board 

 in America. But then the chief object of an English newspaper 

 seems to be to avoid publishing news and keep its readers in the 

 dark as to what the rest of the world has found out.— American. 



CORINTHIAN COOKERY— As a rule the amateur sailor does 

 not take kindly to cooking, regarding it as a necessary evil, 

 instead of something to do well and be proud of. Anything is 

 good enough, and the result is generally very unsatisfactory. 

 Cooking is not such a difficult matter, but the way to learn is not 

 to leave all untill one is forced to begin in a small galley and with 

 few utensils, but to practice at home where conveniences, and 

 perhaps an obliging sister or cousin as instructor, may be found. 

 The ordinary cook books are little help to yachtsmen and 

 campers, but in "Canoe and Camp Cookery" they will find many 

 easily prepared and palatable dishes that are adapted to the 

 larder and limited facilities of the yacht's galley, or the open 

 cockpit of the single-hander. The author, "Seneca," has not only 

 that pride in his work that is found in every true "Cordon Bleu," 

 but he is an old camper and cruiser as well, and the dishes he 

 describes can be prepared anywhere, without a large market and 

 a hotel kitchen to fall back on. 



A NEW CUTTER FOR THE LAKES.— At Charlevoix, Mich., 

 a cutter is now building for Mr. G. E. Stockbridge, of Kalama- 

 zoo, Mich., for use on Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. She will 

 be 47ft. over all, 37ft. l.w.l., 9ft.3in. beam, and about 7ft. draft,with 

 a 6^ ton iron keel and 3^ tons of inside ballast, cast to fit. The 

 headroom under flush deck will be 6ft. The interior will be fitted 

 after the plans of the Surf, in "Small Yachts." The vacht will be 

 tried first under yawl rig. The builders are the Messrs. Camp- 

 bell. 



CRUISING.— Gitana, schr,, left Nassau on Feb. 2 for Havana, 

 and on the same day Yampa, schr., arrived, sailing on the 3d for 

 Martinque. 



SEAWANHAKA C. Y. C.-The fifth lecture of the course will 

 be delivered by Lieut. E. K. Moore, U. S. N., on Feb. 18 at 8:30 P. M., 

 the subject being "Chronometers; History, Construction, Care 

 and Use." 



DAUNTLESS, schr., Vice-Corn. Colt, is at Poillon's being rebuilt. 



\mwm to Hjsarrespmulentg. 



iW™ No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



G. L. E., Racine, Wis.— Kindly give me the address of Mr. E. 

 Hurtzig, patentee of the reversible reel-seat, as mentioned in 

 Forkst and Stream of last week's issue? Ans. Emil Hurtzig, 

 351 West 123d street, New York city. It is not patented and will 

 not be patented. 



J. F. D., New York.— Is the fish, known as frostfish or tomcod 

 different from the codfish, and if so how does it differ? Ans. The 

 fishes differ in the bones of the cranium, the number of rays in 

 the second dorsal fin, and the tomcod has its vent under the first 

 dorsal, while in the cod it is under the second dorsal fin. The 

 tomcod seldom exceeds a pound in weight, it comes into harbors 

 and even brackish waters to spawn and its eggs sink at a density 

 of 1.028, while the cod does not spawn in brackish water, and its 

 eggs float at that density. 



H. W., New York.— C. S. Brnnner in last issue of Forest 

 and Stream writes of the "butcher bird": "It is about 9in. 

 long and 13in. in extent and of a dull slate color in general 

 appearance." Is this not tit sounds like it) the same bird 

 that I ran across in big-game hunting in the North last fall 

 which my guides called "moose bird"? I was at times greatly 

 bothered by the so-called "moose bird," who would come in to 

 camp and steal every edible which it could get hold of, but soap 

 it seemed to prefer above all things. Ans. Not the same bird. 

 The moose bird is a jay (Perimreus canadensis), while the butcher 

 bird is a shrike (Coltyris). They belong to different groups. 



S. S. N, Watkins, N. Y.— 1. Can you tell me why it is that the 

 bullets of the large sporting and military rifles fit the barrels so 

 much more loosely than the .22 and .32 and .38 long and short. 2. 

 It seems to me that a .22, .32, or .38 calibre, fitted with open hunting 

 sights, does finer work up to 100yds. than rifles using the large 

 sporting or military cartridges; am I right? 3. Was using a .38-55 

 the other day, with factory ammunition, and had to set up the 

 rear sight two notches to make it shoot up level at 75ft., was this 

 the thing for a new and high priced gun? Ans. 1. There is less 

 chance for a change of form in the bullet when upset. 2. You 

 will find many who think with you that smaller calibres and 

 smaller charges get better work at low ranges. 3. It is almost 

 invariably necessary with a new rifle to re-mark the sights. The 

 factory ammunition may have been under-loaded. 



Calgary. — A young friend of mine shot an hawk or falcon the. 

 other day. He bad shot a prairie chicken, and the hawk picked 

 it up and forfeited its life. The bird was 22J^in. in length, stretch 

 of wings 3ft. llj^in. Plumage a rich slaty gray above, lighter 

 below, tail 12 feathers. I have seen these birds a few times in 

 this country during winter months, and shot one a couple of years 

 ago. I take it to be the gyrfalcon. It is a fine bird and looks 

 well mounted. Would you, if you can, from the meagre descrip- 

 tion, give me the name of the bird? Also the exact color of bill 

 of drake ruddy duck when in its best plumage? Ans. It is im- 

 possible from this description to absolutely identify the bird. It 

 may be a gyrfalcon or a lanier falcon. More details are required 

 before pronouncing on the species or even the genus. If it had a 

 toothed bill and sharp pointed wings it was probably a true 

 falcon. The bill of the male ruddy duck is grayish blue. 



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