146 MANATIS. 



LIB. in. j-j^ man h^k no t so long a sight, nor so nimble and swift 

 footing as were needefull, to transporte his eyes from one 

 parte to another, in so short a time, as a tide will give him 

 respite, which are only six houres. 



CHAP. xv. Of sundry Fishes, and their manner of fishing at 



the Indies. 



There are in the Indian Ocean an infinite number of 

 fishes, the kindes and properties whereof the Creator only 

 can declare. There are many such as we have in the sea 

 of Europe, as shaddes 1 and aloses, 2 which come from the sea 

 into the rivers; dorads, 3 pilchards, 4 and many others. There 

 are others, the like I doe not thinke to have seene in these 

 partes, as those which they doe call Cabrillas, 5 which doe 

 somewhat resemble the trowt, 6 and in new Spaine they call 

 them Bobos, they mount from the sea into the rivers. I 

 have not seene any bream there, nor trowts, although some 

 say there are in Chille. There are tunny fish in some 

 partes vpoii the coast of Peru, but they are rare; and 

 some are of opinion that, at a certaine time, they do cast 

 their spawne in the Straight of Magellan, as they doe in 

 Spaine at the Straight of Gibraltar, and for this reason 

 they finde more vpon the coast of Chille, although those I 

 have seen there are not like to them in Spaine. At the 

 Ilandes (which they call Barlovento), which are Cuba, Santo 

 Domingo, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, they find a fish 

 which they call Manati, a strange kinde of fish, if we may 

 call it fish, a creature which in genders her yoong ones alive, 

 and hath teates, and doth nourish them with milke, feeding 

 of grasse in the fieldes, but in effect it lives continually in 



1 Li^u*, a ssluu.1. ~ Sai alos, a shad. 3 Dorados. 



4 Sardinas, sardine. 5 Calrillas, prawns. Tnicliat--. 



