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(18) When arriving in port, telegraph your arrival, and if you have specially valu- 
able specimens on board, wire the facts. If you learn anything important relative 
to the movements or abundance of fish, give the facts to the Associated Press agent in 
any port you may visit. 
(19) Eeport briefly by mail the result of your work. 
Very respectfully, 
J. W. Collins. 
Capt. D. E. Collins, 
U. S. Fish Commission schooner Grampus, Gloucester, Mass. 
We remained at Wood’s Holl until April 3 the weather in the mean- 
time being stormy and boisterous. At 2.1 0 p. m., on the above date, we 
got under way to beat out of Vineyard Sound, but at 4.30 p. m. anchored 
at Tarpaulin Cove, where there were two schooners of the mackerel fleet, 
which were bound to the southern fishing grounds. On the morning 
of the 4th we left Tarpaulin Cove with a moderate southwesterly wind, 
which increased to a strong breeze in the latter part of the day, and caused 
a sharp, choppy sea. We therefore went into Newport Harbor, where 
we arrived before noon. At Newport there were nine or ten schooners 
of the mackerel fleet waiting a favorable opportunity to make their pas- 
sage to the fishing grounds. 
We sailed from Newport at 3.30 p. m. April 5, with a fresh north- 
westerly wind, which increased toward evening ; outside of the harbor 
we met with a sharp sea coming from the southward, and, although 
we reefed the mainsail, the vessel’s deck was filled with water most of 
the time during the night. At 1 p. m. on the following day we saw 
Barnegat light-house bearing west J north. The wind, in the mean time, 
had moderated considerably, and during the evening of the 6th all head 
sails were set. We ran along the coast, passing Five Fathom Bank 
light-ship at 8 p. m., being about 4 miles distant from it. 
From this point we steered for the fishing grounds most generally 
resorted to by mackerel schooners at this season, and which are em- 
braced within the parallels of north latitude 37 to 39 degrees, and be- 
tween the meridians of west longitude 74 to 75° 25'. It will, however, 
be seen in subsequent paragraphs of this report that our researches 
were extended over a much larger area. 
April 7 began with fine clear weather and moderate southwest wind, 
but at 9 a. m. the wind veered suddenly to north-northeast, although 
the weather continued clear and the sea smooth throughout the day. 
In the morning two mackerel schooners were in sight steering to the 
southward. We ran in that direction also until 9.40 p. m., when the 
light sails were taken in, the head sails hauled to windward, and the 
vessel was hove to on the starboard tack. 
. During the day we saw several small flocks of sea-geese (Phalaropes) 
and occasionally a gannet. 
There was a. fresh north-northeast breeze and clear weather on the 
following day (April 8). At 6 a. m. a fleet of twenty-four sail of mack- 
erel schooners was seen to the northwest of us. We filled away and 
