EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. Ixxîiî 



In September, innnmerable legions, and various fpecies, 

 of mackarel arrive there. At that feafon, too, appears a 

 kind of mullet, which, unlike all other filhes, who delight 

 in filence, flock to noife. The Negros avail themfelves of 

 this inftinft as the means of catching them. They tie to a 

 piece of wood furrounded w^ith hooks, a fort of cornet with 

 it's clapper ; thus furnifhed, it is thrown into the fea ; and 

 the motion of the waves tolling about the cornet, produces 

 a certain noife, which attra6ls the fifli in queftion, fo that, 

 in attempting to lay hold of the piece of wood, they are 

 thus themfelves caught. Kind Nature, accordingly, thus 

 furniflies to the poor Negroes a filhery adapted to their ca- 

 pacity and induftry. 



This fpecies of mullet appears, from it's inftinft, def- 

 tined to travel through turbulent feas, and at noify feafons, 

 for he is vifible only about the autumnal Equinox, at the 

 revolution of the feafons. But in the months of Odlober 

 and November, thofe fhores are crouded with fifties, whofe 

 names and manners are unknown to Europe, and which 

 feem to appertain to the South Pole, whofe Currents are 

 then in a date of acSlivity. Such are, a fea pike or jack, 

 the teeth of which are extremely fharp, and the bite very 

 dangerous : a fpecies of falmon, with white flefh, and of an 

 exquifite flavour : another called the ftar of the fea : a fpe- 

 cies of fea-dog, which has a very large head, and the throat 

 in form of a warming-pan ; it is marked on the back with 

 a crofs : fome of them grow to fuch a fize, that a fingle one 

 is fuflicient to load two or three canoes. In December ar- 

 rive vafl: quantities of the korkofedo, or moon-fifh ; they 

 appear likewife in June. The korkofedo feems to regulate 

 his progrefs by the folfliices. He is as broad as long ; and 

 |s caught by a bit of fugar-cane fixed on a hook. The tafle 



which 



