188 THE ATLANTIC. (CHAP. 111. 
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A good deal of gulf-weed drifted past during the day, and 
we were struck by the circumstance that a large proportion of 
it, instead of assuming its usual loose, graceful arrangement in 
the water, was in the form of round compact balls, a little larger 
than cricket-balls. A boat was sent off to collect some, and 
about half a dozen closely twined bundles were brought on 
board. On pulling them to pieces and examining them, we 
found that the bundles were bound together by very strong 
Fig. 44.—Antennarius marmoratus. Natural size. From the surface. 
transparent strings of the viscid secretion of the singular pe- 
lagic fish Antennarius marmoratus, and that the spaces among 
the fronds were filled with its eggs. Several young examples 
of this grotesque little animal (Fig. 44) were found among the 
