Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . r was from Ghoole, and her nets hungfrom the forward mast rusty brown in the graylight. Now and then she dipped her rusty fore-foot into the brine, and tossed it in an emeraldand white shower over her fore deck. Thewater ran from her scuppers in a creamy yellowfroth. In the iron cage on the fore pole was afisherman in yellow oilskins, his face showingas a spot of red under his tarpaulin hat. Thisman was the lookout on the watch for the her-ring. All a
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . r was from Ghoole, and her nets hungfrom the forward mast rusty brown in the graylight. Now and then she dipped her rusty fore-foot into the brine, and tossed it in an emeraldand white shower over her fore deck. Thewater ran from her scuppers in a creamy yellowfroth. In the iron cage on the fore pole was afisherman in yellow oilskins, his face showingas a spot of red under his tarpaulin hat. Thisman was the lookout on the watch for the her-ring. All at once the trawlers chain cable rat-tled in the hawse pipes and her anchor droppedin eight fathom of water. I asked a question ofthe Patroon; the only answer I got was a singlepuff of smoke from his lips. He gave an orderto the four men in the bow of the bom (a wide,flat-bottomed fishing boat with lee boards), upwent our tanned jib flapping in the stiff breeze,and away we went before the wind. In twentyminutes we had left the steam trawler wallow-ing far behind in the greeny yellow waters, andfetched up the gap of the Helder through which. A YOUNG MOTHER AND CHILD THE HERRING FLEET 103 we at length gained the open sea. The lightfishing boats followed our lead in a line. All atonce we rounded up and, dropping our jib andmainsail, lay head to the seas in a smoother stripof water. The men jumped to the nets andhauled at them seemingly without ord^, but Isaw finally that there was method in their han-dling. The skipper vouchsafed the informationthat there was two fathom of water under ourkeel, and that he expected herring shortly. Iwatched the men at the nets. A herring net issome fifty feet long and twelve deep. Whencast overboard it sinks to a vertical wall weigheddown by sinkers and held upright by corks andfloats. The nets are usually fastened to eachother by heavy rope laid out over the side on aroller. The boat drifts with the tide draggingthe nets, and the fishermen watch th
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