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 This is in many ways an immoral story, for what was bad proved 

 good. Even in our colder climate I have taught my sons that when 

 angling it is a crime not to clean any fish you have caught before 

 taking it home, even if you get in cold, wet, and sleepy, and no 

 matter what hour. Thank heaven, these Comorans had not had a 

 training of that kind ; for they apparently threw the fish down at 



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Fig. 6. — The island of Anjouan, Comores, formerly known as 'Johanna', showing 

 where Malania was caught and position of Hunt's schooner. 



Hussein's hut, just as it was, without scaling or gutting it, despite 

 that oven-like climate. 



Next morning Hussein took it to the local market for sale, and 

 it was about to be cut up when a native who looked at it advised 

 them not to do so because it looked like the fish on the leaflet, 

 Hunt's paper.* While the French authorities did a tremendous 

 amount, it is clear that Hunt was always hunting, so that the 

 natives came to connect him with the fish. One could imagine the 



• It later became apparent that this surprisingly intelligent behaviour on 

 the part of the native was due to his being of a higher class, a trained teacher. 



