CANOES are mentioned in every book of travel along the inland waterways, kayaks in every book about the Eskimos. La Hontan's _Travels_, though imaginative, give interesting details, as do the much more sober _Travels_ of Peter Kalm, the Swedish naturalist. Kohl's _Kitchi-Gami_ is a good book. But the list might be extended indefinitely. SAILING CRAFT and STEAMERS require some sort of nautical dictionary, though even a dictionary sometimes adds to the puzzles of the landsman. Admiral Smyth's _Sailor's Word Book_, and Dana's _Seaman's Friend_ (as it is called in the United States), or _Seaman's Manual_ (as it is called in England), are excellent. Peake's _Rudimentary Treatise on Shipbuilding_ covers the period so well described in Clark's _Clipper Ship Era_ and Dana's _Two Years before the Mast_. Sir George Holmes's {191} _Ancient and Modern Ships_ and Paasch's magnificent polyglot marine dictionary, _From Keel to Truck_, deal with steam as well as sail. Lubbock's _Round the Horn before the Mast_ gives a good account of a modern steel wind-jammer. Patton's article on shipping and canals in _Canada and Its Provinces_ is a very good non-nautical account of its subject, and is quite as long and thorough as the ordinary book. Fry's _History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation_ includes a great deal on Canada. _The Times Shipping Number_ gives an up-to-date account of British and foreign shipping in 1912. Barnaby's _Naval Development in the Nineteenth Century_ is well worth reading. So is Bullen's _Men of the Merchant Service_; and so, it might be added, are a hundred other books. FISHERIES are the subject of a vast literature. An excellent general account, but more European than Canadian, is Herubel's _Sea Fisheries_. Grenfell's _Labrador_ and Browne's _Where the Fishers Go_ give a good idea of the Atlantic coast; so, indeed, does Kipling's _Captains Courageous_. The butchering of seals in the Gulf and round Newfoundland does not seem to have found any special historian, though much has been written on the fur seal question in Alaska. Whaling is recorded in many books. Bullen's _Cruise of the Cachalot_ is good reading; but annals that incidentally apply more closely to Bluenose whalers are set forth in Spears's _Story of the New England Whalers_. {192} Books on the many subjects grouped together under the general title of ADMINISTRATION cannot even be mentioned. Such headings as Marine Insurance, Seamen's Institutes, Lighthouses, Navigation, etc., must be looked up in reference catalogues. When we come to NAVIES the number of books is so great that they too must be looked up separately. Corbett's _England in the Seven Years' War_ and all the works of Admiral Mahan should certainly be consulted. Snider's collection of well-spun yarns, _In the Wake of the Eighteen-Twelvers_, seems to be the only book that has ever been devoted to the old Canadian Provincial Marine. {193} INDEX