PART I.

Number. Page. 1. To knot a Rope-Yarn, 21 2. To make a Fox, 21 3. To make a Spanish Fox, 21 4. To make a Knittle, 22 5. Overhanded Knot, 22 6. Figure of Eight-Knot, 22 7. Two Half-Hitches, 22 8. Reef or Square Knot, 22 9. A Bowline Knot, 22 10. Bowline on the Bight, 23 11. A Running Bowline, 23 12. A Timber-Hitch, 23 13. A Fisherman’s Bend, 23 14. A Rolling Bend, 23 15. A Carrick Bend, 23 16. A Cat’s-Paw, 24 17. A Sheet or Becket Bend, 24 18. A Black-Wall Hitch, 24 19. A Rolling Hitch, 25 20. A Salvagee Strap, 25 21. A Pudding for a Mast or Yard, 25 22. A Short Splice, 25 23. A Long Splice, 26 24. An Eye Splice, 26 25. A Cut Splice, 27 26. A Flemish Eye, 27 27. An Artificial Eye, 27 28. To worm and serve a Rope, 27 29. To clap on a Throat and Quarter Seizing, 28 30. To make a Turk’s Head, 28 31. To Sheepshank a Rope or Backstay, 29 32. To put a Strand in a Rope, 29 33. To Wall and Crown, 29 34. To make a Mathew Walker, 29 35. A Spritsail Sheet Knot, 30 36. A Shroud-Knot, 30 37. A French Shroud Knot, 30 38. A single Diamond Knot, 30 39. A double Diamond Knot, 31 40. A Stopper Knot, 31 41. A Buoy-rope Knot, 31 42. A Common Sennit, 31 43. A Sea Gasket, 31 44. A Panch or Wrought Mat, 32 45. A Harbor Gasket or French Sennit, 32 46. Pointing a Rope, 32 47. To make a Grommet, 33 48. To pass a Rose-Lashing, 33 49. To weave a Sword Mat, 33 50. A Lashing Cleat, 34 51. A Shell, Pin and Sheave, 34 52. A Single, Double and Treble Block, 34 53. A Shoulder Block, 34 54. A Fiddle Block, 35 55. A Shoe Block, 35 56. A Sister Block, 35 57. A Dead-Eye, 35 58. A Heart, 36 59. A Belaying-pin Rack, 36 60. A Euphroe, 36 61. A Horn Cleat, 36 62. A B-Cleat, 36 63. A Strap for a Block, 36 64. A Tail Block, 37 65. A Purchase Block, 37 66. A Top Block, 37 67. A Cat Block, 38 68. A Snatch Block, 38 69. A Nun Buoy, 38 70. To bend a Buoy-Rope, 38 71. To Pudding the Ring of an Anchor, 39 72. A Jacob’s Ladder, 39 73. Can-Hooks, 40 74. Hogshead Slings, 40 75. Barrel Slings, 40 76. A Single Whip, 40 77. A Gun-Tackle Purchase, 41 78. A Luff-Tackle Purchase, 41 79. A Top Burton, 41 80. Whip and Runner, 41 81. Runner and Tackle, 41 82. A Twofold Purchase, 41 83. A Threefold Purchase, 42 84. Names of Ropes, 42