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They fly till their Wings are dry fays Harkins, being purfued by Giltheads, 
otherwife called Bonito’s, which they take with them, or White Cloath made 
into their fhape, as a Bait, zd. 
They Jeap into our Boats, whence they cannot get, their Wings being 
dried, Drake. | 
They are near the Line, as well South as North, and beyond the Cape of 
Good Hope, fF yrard. de La Val. 
Their Wings are given them by Nature toefcape. Abbeville. 
Thefe Flying-Fifhes bring after them another kind of Fifh which preys on 
them, it is commonly called Boxeto’s, but I fhall call it, Scombrus major Torofus, 
being of the fame kind with a Mackarel, though it has been taken notice of 
by the following Writers, under other names, as 
Bonito of Drake, Hakl. part. 3. p.732. OF Cliffe, ib. p.750. Of Ligon, p. §. 
Bonite de Cauche, p.142. Abbeville, p.30. An toni precioli, Col. f. 74? who 
obferved them in the Sea about Efpanolain plenty. La Bonite de Rochef. p.187. 
_ where is a bad figure, de Dw Zertre, 214. where is a good figure, Du ’yrard 
Tab.t, Fig.3. 
Of Boneto’s. 
Of Remo- 
ta’s, 
de la Val. p.6. 137. De Raveneaw. De Luffan.p. Bonito’s de Francifco Gualle 
apud Linfchot,p1r4. 2.P» Purchas, lib. 4. cap.13. p. 806. Hakl. p. 406. OF 
Mandelflo, p. 196. Of Sit Richard Hawkins, p. 4.. Aa Pelamys Bellonii, Gefner 2 
Raii, 186. Tab. Mir? An Alba Coretta, pif. p. 73. ¢d.1658 2 Giltheads, othere 
wile called Bowito's of Hawkins, p.520. Turbots of Oviedo, fum, p.rxt. 214. 
Boniti de Laet, lib, 10. cap. U1. p.415. in Peru, 430. Bonitoes of Terry, p.1t5 
Of Fo. Davis. Purchas,132. 
This appear’d in every thing like a Mackarel in colour of Skin, fmooth- 
nefS, great and {mall Fins, Tail, dc. only it was much thicker in proportion 
to the length of its Body than the Mackarel, being One Foot and a half long ; 
it weighed Ten Pounds, and had in its Belly many of thefe young Fifhes de- 
{cribed before under the name of Serpens Marinus, &c. and young Flying- 
Fifhes, which were moft of them confum’d to the Bone, their Inteftines be- 
ing fill'd with blackifh fcaly Matter, and the Bones of thefe Fithes. The 
Lines on the fide of the Figure of this Fifh are not inthe Fifth, but miftaken 
by the Defigner or Graver. ) 
They are taken between the Tropicks, and in more Northerly Latitudes, 
when the Sun is in the Northern Signs, as the Dolphins are, either with 
Phifgigs being {truck from the Yard-Arms, or by Hooks and Lines baited with 
Cloath in the fhape of Flying-Fifhes, and are reckoned very Savoury, they 
tafting like a Mackarel exa@tly.. They are alfo taken at the Maldives in the 
South-Sea. S37 os 6 SSAC, EAN | 
They were found in the‘South Seas-between New-Spain and China, by 
Francifco Gualle; whence he Argues a Current and - Strait there, thefe Fithes 
ufing fuch places as well as Albacoras, which (by the way) is Tranflated Tun- 
nies in Purchas, lib. 4. cap.13. p. 806. 
They purfue Flying-Fifhes, and were galled wich Phifgigs following the 
Ship Five hundred Leagues. Hawkins. | 
They are lefS valued in Peru, becaufe thought to breed Fevers and other 
Diftempers, Lact. 
‘The Remora, as it iscommonly called, is alfo frequent here ; it is defcribed 
and figured in moft Natural Hiftorians, and is called Reverfus vel Lnverfus, 
Lact. p.6s. Riverft,Col. f.112. Lperuquiba cy Piraquiba Braflienfthus, Lufitanis 
Piexepogador Gr piexe piolho Noftratibus Suyger. Maregr. p. 180. Raii, p. 119. 
Ap, Lab.9. Fig.2. Un remora de Molinet, p..05. Sucking-Fifh of Terry, p. 9: 
Fithes called Guajcanus or Reverfus, taking other Fifhes. Of Martyr, Decad- 
Poiffons femblables au pinaru de Cauche, p- 143. LEchenoen fea Remora. Impe- 
rat. p.684. Aldrovand. de pifcitus, lib. 3. cap. 22. p. 336. The Sucking- 
Fifth, 
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