AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



same to be a delicate meat. And the captaine of the 

 [III. 520.] Frenchmen saw also a serpent with three heads and foure 

 Serpents, ^^^^^ ^f ^}^g bignesse of a great spaniel], which for want 

 of a harquebuz he durst not attempt to slay. Of fish 

 also they have in the river, pike, roch, salmon, trout, 

 and divers other small fishes, and of great fish, some of 

 the length of a man and longer, being of bignesse accord- 

 ingly, having a snout much like a sword of a yard long. 

 Flying Jishes. There be also of sea fishes, which we saw comming 

 along the coast flying, which are of the bignesse of a 

 smelt, the biggest sort whereof have foure wings, but 

 the other have but two : of these wee sawe comming 

 out of Guinea a hundred in a company, which being 

 chased by the gilt-heads, otherwise called the bonitos, 

 do to avoid them the better, take their flight out of the 

 water, but yet are they not able to flie farre, because 

 of the drying of their wings, which serve them not to 

 flie but when they are moist, and therefore when they 

 can flie no further they fall into the water, and having 

 wet their wings, take a new flight againe. These bonitos 

 be of bignesse like a carpe, and in colour like a makarell, 

 but it is the swiftest fish in swimming that is, and 

 folio weth her prey very fiercely, not onely in the water, 

 but also out of the water : for as the flying fish taketh 

 her flight, so doeth this bonito leape after them, and 

 taketh them sometimes above the water. There were 

 some of those bonitos, which being galled by a fisgig, 

 did follow our shippe comming out of Guinea 500. 

 leagues. There is a sea-fowle also that chaseth this 

 flying fish aswell as the bonito : for as the flying fish 

 taketh her flight, so doth this fowle pursue to take her, 

 which to beholde is a greater pleasure then hawking, for 

 both the flights are as pleasant, and also more often then 

 an hundred times ; for the fowle can flie no way, but 

 one or other lighteth in her pawes, the number of 

 them are so abundant. There is an innumerable 

 yoong frie of these flying fishes, which commonly 

 keepe about the ship, and are not so big as butter-flies, 



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