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Updated: September 11, 2025
Not only the professional swordfish fisherman, but many mackerel-schooners and packets are supplied in this manner. The swordfish never comes to the surface except in moderate, smooth weather. A vessel cruising in search of them proceeds to the fishing-ground, and cruises hither and thither wherever the abundance of small fish indicates that they ought to be found.
They camped on Lake Pharaoh for six weeks, by Mrs. De Peyster's command; and her canoe was always the first to reach the fishing-ground in the morning, and the last to leave it in the evening. Some one asked him, when he returned to the city, whether he had good luck. "Quite fair," he tossed off in a careless way; "we took over three hundred pounds."
Come along, then! but beware of the over-falls of Tiree, you southern men! Or is it a race for Barra Head; and who will be at Vatersay first! There is good fishing-ground on the Sgriobh bhan; Hamish; they may as well stop to fish as seek to catch us among our Western Isles! See, the dark is coming down; are these the Monach lights in the north?
"Perhaps he was making for the best fishing-ground as fast as he could." "We shall see that by the fish he brings home." "True. By supper-time we shall know." "Hund will not be home by supper-time," said Oddo, decidedly. "Why not? Come, say out what you mean." "Well, I will tell you what I saw. I watched him rowing as fast as his arm and the tide would carry him.
The forests on each side were thick and impenetrable; so that there was no landing-place, excepting here and there where a footpath wound down to some fishing-ground, or some place where the natives kept their canoes. The boat had ascended about a league above the village, to a part of the river where it was completely overshadowed by lofty banks and spreading trees.
There are brighter skies and richer lands in another hemisphere." We had a quick run to Cape Horn, which we rounded in safety; and then standing across the Pacific, we steered for the fishing-ground off the coast of Japan. We were, as in our former voyage, very successful indeed.
Men were stationed at the mast-head and yardarm, on the look-out for whales, from sunrise to sunset; but it was two weeks before we got to our fishing-ground. One day, at noon, while those on deck had their eyes on the galley, waiting for dinner, we were aroused by a cry from the mast-head, of "There she spouts." "Where away?" asked Captain Grimes.
It had been very stormy weather, and the fishermen had been detained in the harbor for a week. One day, however, the sun shone out in a clear blue sky; it seemed as if the storm had passed away, and the boats started out for the fishing-ground. Forty-one boats left the harbor that day. Before they started, the harbor -master hoisted the storm signal, and warned them of the coming tempest.
After the advent of the SYREN, the Bonins became the favourite fishing-ground for both Americans and British, and for many years the catch of oil taken from these teeming waters averaged four thousand tuns annually.
No doubt, the screams of that fellow I throttled have frightened them off for good. So I suppose we must give the birds up, for this night anyhow. Just possible, in the morning they'll be as hungry as ourselves, and pay their fishing-ground a very early visit." Saying this, the gaucho relapses into silence, the others also ceasing to converse.
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