700 A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



it should seeme that our fiers, which wee maintained on the shoares 

 side drave them from us,* so as wee were in some want, until! wee 

 had made a fiat bottome Gundall of Cedar, with which wee put off 

 farther into the Sea, and then daily hooked great store of many 

 kindes, as excellent Angell-fish,f Salmon Peale | not identified], 

 Bonetas, Stingray, Cabally, Scnappers, Hogge-fish (lachnolaimus), 

 Sharkes, Dogge-fish, Pilchards, Mullets, and Rock-fish, of which bee 

 divers kindes : and of these our Governour dryed and salted, and 

 barrelling them up, brought to sea five hundred, for he had pro- 

 cured Salt to bee made with some Brine, which happily was pre- 

 served, and once having made a little quantity, he kept three or 

 foure pots boyling, and two or three men attending nothing else in 

 an house (some little distance from his Bay) set up on purpose for 

 the same Avorke. 



Figure 52. — Green Angel-fish. 



Likewise in Furbushers building Bay wee had a large Sein, or 

 Tramell Net, which our Governour caused to be made of the Deere 

 Toyles, which wee were to carry to Virginia, by drawing the Masts 

 more straight and narrow with Koape Yarne, and which reached 

 from one side of the Dock to the other: with which (I may boldly 

 say) wee have taken five thousand of small and great fish at one 

 hale. As Pilchards,]; Breames, Mullets, Rocke-fish, &c, and other 

 kindes for which wee have no names. . . . True it is, for Fish in 

 everie Cove and Creeke wee found Snaules, and Skulles in that 

 abundance, as (I thinke) no Hand in the world may have greater 

 store or better Fish." 



The following is from Gov. Moore's description, Kill': 

 " With a hooke and line wee tooke more then our whole company 

 was able to eate. So that there was enough to feed many more. 



* This was more likely clue to the constant fishing carried on at that time. 



f The Green Angel-fish (Angelichthys ciliaris) is still common and highly 

 esteemed as a food fish. 



\ This was probably the Harengula macrophthalma Ran., still called pilchard 

 here, and often seined in large numbers in the spring. 



