A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 701 



The next day after the Sabbath wee went with our net and boat, 

 and if we would have loaded two boats we might: and so you may 

 do day by day. Fishes do so abound, and they be of these sorts, 

 Mullets, Breames, Hogge fish, Rock fish and Lobsters [Panulirus 

 argas], with more sorts of other Fish which I cannot name." 



Figure 53. — White Mullet (Mvyil Braziliensis). 



The following is by the Rev. Mr. Hughes, 1614 : 



" For the present Tobacco is the best commoditie, and for victuals, 

 if men have boates. nets, lines, hookes, and striking irons, they may 

 have good fish at all times, as Rockfish [PI. xcv, figs. 3, 4], Augell- 

 fish, Hogge-fish, Amberfish [Seriola], Cutlefish [Octopus or Squid], 

 Pilot-fish, Hedgehogfish [Diodon], Cunnyfish [Coney-fish, PI. xcv. 

 fig. 1], Old wives, Stingraies, Snappers, Groopers, [hamlets], Cavallies, 

 Moffaies, Mullets, Mackerels, Pilchers [pilchards], Breames, Lobster-. 

 Turtles, Sharkes, etc. Also heere are Eeles in freshwater ponds 

 [true Anguilla, still found]. Rivers here are none, but ponds and 

 welles of very good and holsome water, and a water descending from 

 an hill, which floweth and ebbeth with the sea, and yet drinketh 

 alwaies sweet like milke." 



Governor Butler gave the following account of the fishes : 



" But above all the rest of the elements the sea is found most 

 aboundantly liberall to thes islands ; hence have they as much excel- 



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Figure 54. — Rockfish (Mycteroperca bonaci). 



lent fish and of a much varietye most easily taken as any place in 

 the world ; the most of which bein^ unknown to our more northerly 

 partes, have lately gotten them names, either from their shapes or 



