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clear and shallow that, although the turtle at first dived 

 quickly out of sight, the pursuers in a canoe or boat 

 under sail, after no very long chase, came up to it. At 

 that moment a man standing ready in the bows dashed 

 through the water upon the turtle's back, and clinging 

 with both hands by the shell of the neck, was carried 

 away till the animal became exhausted and was secured. 

 We may easily fancy that it was, as Mr. Darwin says, 

 quite an interesting chase, with the two boats doubling 

 about, and the men dashing into the water endeavouring 

 to seize their prey. 



But in the Oriental seas a still more curious mode of 

 taking turtle is recorded by safe authors. 



Many have heard of the Memora, a fish whose vis 

 inert ice was, in old times, believed to be sufficient to 

 stop an argosy if it attached itself to the ship. Tlie 

 fishermen take with them in their small light boat, a 

 tub containing a supply of these fishes. It is necessary 

 to premise, for the edification of those who are not 

 acquainted with the organization of a remora, that there 

 is an oval plate at the toj) of its head, with a soft fleshy 

 circumference. Within this is a very remarkable appa- 

 ratus of firm pieces or plates, disposed in two regular 

 rows across the top of the head. These pieces are capable 

 of movement on their axis by the aid of appropriate 

 muscles, as the laths of moveable wooden blinds are made 

 to turn so as to exclude the sun's rays by pulling the 

 adjusting string, or like the plates of the new glass ven- 

 tilators. The free edges of the plates of the remora, 

 which in different species of the genus vary from fifteen 

 to thirty-six, are armed with small hooks, which can be 

 all raised at once like the teeth of a wool-card. Well, 

 to the tail of each of these living tackles in the tubs is 

 fastened a ring, ready for the attachment of a cord, 

 which, though fine, is long and strong. All being ready, 

 the fisherman bides his time till he gets sight of a turtle 



