Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — Told by a Fisherman. [ARTICLE]

Told by a Fisherman.

“It is well worth a trip to the North Carolina coast,” said Colonel Keegh, of that State, “to see the operations of one of the big seines in the waters along the Albemarle or Pimlico Sound. And what enormous takes are frequently made —barrelfuls of herring at a single haul!” “Abundant as the finny tribe is in the North Carolina waters,” said Colonel Walter B. Evans, of Florida, who had been listening to Colonel Keegh, “it is not until you get down in my country that you find fish in multitudinous quantities, so to speak. In the Indian River, particularly, they are far too thick for the comfort of the fisherman, and often embarrass him by their redundancy. I shall never forget one experience I had down there. “It was a dark night and a party of us were on the river in a goodsized sloop after big fish. We had not been long anchored when the light in our boat began to attract schools of mullet, and into that craft they jumped by the hundreds. Yes, thousands. Well, we stood it for a While, till the burden got too heavy, and we felt the boat beginning to sink. Then, hurriedly blowing out the lights and pulling anchor, we made for the shore. lam positive if we had let those fish keep piling in on us they would have carried all hands down to a watery grave. As it was we had a narrow escape.”— [Washington Post. The preservation of the carcasses of 12,000 sheep for eleven months on shipboard is the extraordinary achievement in refrigeration claimed by the ship Wellington, which sailed from Picton, New Zealand, May 12, 1898, and arrived at Plymouth, Sound, April 6, 1894. She passed through terrible storms, narrowly escaped destruction at Rio, struck an iceberg, had two men killed and one drowned, but landed her mutton in good condition.