230 CRUSOE'S ISLAND. 



and his son wrote that he saw the Indians of Cuba 

 catch large turtles with the remora. Sir Walter 

 Kaleigh also describes this manner of fishing most 

 quaintly, as he saw it practiced in these very waters : 

 " Now shall you heare," he says, " a newe kind of 

 fishing. Like as we with grayhounds do hunt the 

 hares, so do they, the Indians, as it were, with a hunt- 



Kemoras and shark. 



ing fish take other fishes. This fish was of a shape 

 like unto a great eel, and had hanging on the hinder 

 part of its head a very tough skin, like unto a great 

 bag or purse. This fish is tied at the side of a boat 

 by a cord, let down so far into the water that it 

 may reach the keel of the same, close to which it 

 lieth until it espieth any great fish or tortoise, when it 

 maketh for it as swiftly as an arrow, and so graspeth 

 its pray with that purse of skin that no man's strength 



