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` food which allures this fish to Rogge Bay, also improves 
its flavour; for I could observe, that they were always 
greedily bought up the instant that they were hauled ashore. 
The Harder is usually salted, and in that state, is no bad 
substitute for the Herring. 
“ No part of the coast affords greater abundance or more 
variety of fish than Algoa Bay. But what struck me as most 
worthy of notice was the vast variety of species associated in 
. the same shoal. Whenever the weather permitted, we had 
only to push off to a short distance from shore, and rarely 
failed to load our boat in the course of a few hours. The 
common and the red Steinbrassen, the Boskop, the Hottentot 
Jish, the Roman Jish, the Galeon fish, the Geelbek, and 
Cabillax, were invariably found together. The favourite 
bait for all was the flesh of the shark, and as there were 
always three or four species of these animals prowling among 
the shoal, we never found ourselves at a loss. 
* The character of the Shark for voracity is of long stand- 
ing, and so firmly believed as to have become proverbial; it 
is, nevertheless, a doubt with me whether it be a merited one. 
We are so much more acutely sensitive to whatever touches 
ourselves, that when our personal feelings come into play, 
We are apt to lose sight of all general considerations. We have 
attached the epithet ravenous to the shark, not because his 
appetite is with more difficulty satisfied, but because, to satisfy 
1t, he attacks man as well as other animals. When we see the 
Albicore and Bonito pursue the flying-fish, and devour them 
in myriads, both in the air and in the water, we regard the 
scene with great coolness, and talk of the matter merely as 
a Curious fact in Natural History. But when we behold a 
shark seizing a messmate who has chanced to fall over- 
board, and biting off a leg or an arm, or perhaps swallowing 
him up at once, the case becomes very different. We feel that 
our own turn may come next, and under that horrible 
"pression, lavish all the worst terms in the language on 
animal that shows so little respect for the lord of the 
Creation. On. the same principle, the Crocodile bears 
character as bad; and the Royal Tiger, equally uncere- 
