BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 69 
rounded by a school of these fish, and they played around us for 
ten minutes or more. They are trimly built and excellent 
aquatic acrobats, gliding beneath and around the boat and leap- 
ing sometimes six or eight feet above the water. Their colors 
were surprisingly brilliant, being in large masses of vivid blue, 
red, and yellow, simulating animated rainbows as they cruised 
around us as if on exhibition. Sometimes they struck the steel 
dredging line, which seemed to surprise them greatly, as they 
would leap high out of the water, turn over in the air, and 
strike the sea again with a resounding whack. I do not know 
its maximum size, but imagine that some individuals that we 
saw would weigh from thirty to fifty pounds. On one ocea- 
sion near the Bahamas, I was aboard a schooner when an entire 
school of about twenty dolphin was caught by hook and line in 
not more than ten minutes, and the scene on deck was a com- 
plete confirmation of all the remarkable stories that I had heard 
of the marvelous colors of the dying dolphin. 
Another good market-fish is the ‘‘Horse-eye,’’ a species of 
Carynz, many of which were afflicted with what the natives call 
the ‘‘roach;’’ an Isopod crustacean of robust form and some- 
times nearly two inches long, which fastens near the base of the 
tongue of its unfortunate victim and must cause great discom- 
fort. 
Edible fishes are very numerous in these waters, and our fish- 
pots yielded many specimens. Among them were the leather 
jack (Oligoplites saurus), the rock hind (Epinephelus adscen- 
sionis), covered with distinct round spots that extend to the fins, 
the red hind (EF. maculatus), beautifully marked with bright 
red spots with darker centers. Several kinds of snappers, inelud- 
ing the red snapper (Neomenis aya) which is much esteemed; 
the yellow-tail (Ocyurus chrysurus), and many others were se- 
cured. 
What delighted us most, however, were the many brilliantly 
colored reef-fishes, a tubful of which was a most gorgeous sight. 
Conspicuous among these were several kinds of angel-fish, char- 
acterized by their compressed bodies and scaly fins. Among 
these were the rock beauty (Holacanthus tricolor), black, yel- 
low, and scarlet in striking contrast; and the blue angel-fish, a 
most gorgeous creature with yellow and red; and the most in- 
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