In mid-August, they ran down to Western Bank again on the strength of a rumor that cod were extremely plentiful there, but they had only made one set when one of the crew developed a sickness which looked suspiciously like typhoid fever.
Off Cape Cod he fell in with the schooner Active, of Beverly, in distress, for she had been disabled in the heavy sea and was on her beam ends, at the mercy of the tempest.
The fish is described as superior to the cod of Newfoundland in both oil and meat.
These cod weigh from eight to twenty pounds, and used to be caught by the Indians with hook and line.
And in her inmost soul she admitted--with a thrill that shook her physically as well as spiritually--that her interest in this Cape Cod fisherman's son was an interest rooted in her inmost being.
He allowed the subject to lapse and began telling her about the ledges on which the rock cod and tautog schooled; where bluefish might be caught on the line, and snappers in the channels going into the Haven.
Louise wondered how good an education this scion of a Cape Cod family really had secured.
Daddy-prof was not half enthusiastic enough about the Cape Cod folk.
She had written to her Aunt Euphemia before leaving New York that she had decided to try Cape Cod for the summer and would go to her mother's relative, Captain Abram Silt.
I mean that the world never saw braver nor more worthy sailors than those who called the wind-swept hamlets of Cape Cod their home ports.
Why, ye couldn't hire some o' these Cape Cod females to get into a boat.
They called the Dog, they called the Cat, And little Kitten too, And down they put the Cod and sauce, To see what brutes would do.
Schooners loaded dried cod as well as lumber for southern ports and carried back naval stores and other southern products.
Many of these craft belong to grandfatherly skippers who dared not venture past Cape Cod in December, lest the venerable Matilda Emerson or the valetudinarian Joshua R.
Before the Revolution the first New England schooners were beating up to the Grand Bank of Newfoundland after cod and halibut.
All hands were drawing in toward her, for they knew they must take a quick mug-up and then dress down until the last cod lay in his shroud of salt.
A catch of two hundred good-sized cod was now considered the usual thing for a handliner, and night after night the piles of silver fish in the pens amidships seemed to grow in size.
This island depends on its fish, and, since cod and hake and pollock have left us, we must cast about for other means of support.
He was in a hurry to fill his hold with cod before the other men out of Freekirk Head; first, for the larger prices he would get; and secondly, because he yearned to come to grapples with Nat Burns.
When there were no speckled cod on the hooks there were silvery hake, velvety black pollock, beautiful scarlet sea-perch that look like little old men, and an occasional ugly dogfish with his Chinese jade eyes.
The tough cord sung against the gunnel, and at times it was all the skipper could do to bring up his prize, for the great cod darted here and there, dove, rushed, and struggled to avert the end.
The worst part of it was that Nat had about a hundred quintals of splendid-looking cod (every pound he had caught) in his hold, and these he handed over to Boughton as a sample of what was to come from him very shortly.
He knew that foxy Bijonah Tanner, who sometimes looked like an old hump-backed cod himself, was his most dangerous rival.
The girl could offer no solution, nor could Bijonah Tanner, who had witnessed the incident from the forecastle head where he was smoking and anticipating the wishes of the cod beneath him.
It meant that this favorite and succulent bait of the roaming cod had arrived on the Banks, and that the catches would be good.
Season four fillets of rock cod with salt and pepper, dip in oil and broil.
The extreme hook of the Cape Cod Peninsula forms Provincetown Harbor, which is an excellent and capacious port of refuge for vessels approaching Boston.
Provisions taken to Newfoundland, poor fish to the West Indies, molasses to New England, rum to Africa and good cod to France and Spain, were the commonest ventures of foreign trade.
Rock Cod and Macaroni did not know what he meant, but they drank rum from the pannikin with the greatest good-will.
He opened the door, and there entered the red-headed sailor, who was closely followed by Rock Cod and Macaroni.
With a sudden jerk Rock Cod obtained his freedom, though not without additional agony.
Muchas yllas and the Arecifes, or from Cape Cod to Cape Sable is shown to be less than twenty leagues, whereas it is more than fifty.
It is a bit ironic to have traveled all over the world and then be taken captive in a small Cape Cod village.
From Cape Cod he made his way to the Elizabeth Islands in Buzzard's Bay, and here he built a storehouse and fort, and may be said to have laid the foundations of the future colony of New England.
He probably only began to investigate closely after he passed into the broad gulf of Maine, between Cape Cod and Nova Scotia.
Ever since the issue of Cabot's voyages was known--at any rate from 1504--ships from Brittany and Normandy had made their way to Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland for the cod fisheries.
The TAIL of a cod cut in fillets or slices, and fried, makes a good dish, and is generally to be bought at a very reasonable rate; if boiled, it is soft and watery.
Fresh cod may be done in the same way, by adding a little salt.
The head and shoulders of a cod contain the richest and best part of this excellent fish.
The skull and tail of a cod is a favourite and excellent Scotch dish, stewed, and served up with anchovy or oyster sauce, with the liquor it is boiled in, in a tureen.
That part of a cod which is near the tail, is considered, in America, as the poorest part of the fish.
There are several species of codfish sold alive in the New-York markets: of these, the common cod is the best, and is in season from November till spring.
The cod cured on the Dogger-bank is remarkably fine, and seldom cured above two or three weeks before brought to market; the barrel cod is commonly cured on the coast of Scotland and Yorkshire.
The cod are all caught with hook, and brought alive in well-boats to the London markets.
