96 SEA FISH OF TRINIDAD 
Gros Roche ‘“‘Charles Tassard’”’ was waiting along with the 
boat of his cousin “Jolle-rouge.”’ “Chambé fort,” cried 
the wily Charles, and four more iron bolts were lanced into 
the fish’s body. Still faster and faster, with five large p1- 
rogues training after it, and ten or twelve harpoons in itsback, 
went the ‘“Terror,’’ past La Haute, down the channel, past 
La Retraite (where Kingsley’s much-wandering Ulysses 
cheered the chase), and Petit Gasparillo, heading straight 
for the Floating Dock. The people in the different villas on 
Gasparillo, could not understand the cause of the hue and 
cry. They said it looked, from their point of view, like a 
submarine boat, towing a number of pirogues, but they could 
not comprehend the reason of the fearful pace. Chaguara- 
mas Bay was now alive with boats and fishermen, conspicu- 
ous amongst them being the stalwart form of Harry Knaggs, 
who, with his slogan of “C’est moen qui 1a’, vainly endea- 
voured to get near with a harpoon. Swerving neither to the 
right or left, with a crash that shook the dock from stem to 
stern, and suspended all conversation amongst the watch- 
men on top, the great brute ran right into the dock at the 
southern end, and fortunately broke off five or six feet of its 
beak. The impact evidently stunned it, as it now went 
quite slowly in the direction of Hart’s Cut, which it entered, 
and the tide being low, it practically beached itself in the 
narrowest portion of the cut. The huge body of the fish is 
fixed so tight, that even at full tide, it could neither move 
backward or forward. The days of the “Terror of Pointe 
Rouge’’ are numbered, but what a fearful price to pay, in 
the lives of so many brave men!!! 
[By Telephone. ] 
Hart's Cut; 
1o P. M., Tuesday. 
The “Maman-Balaou” is not dead, but bleeding pro- 
fusely. It cannot move and the harpoons have been ex- 
tracted with the hope of keeping it alive for the inspection 
of the townsfolk. Its estimated weight is between four and 
five tons. Of course the water always incoming and out- 
going, may keep it alive, but we have had to put a Police 
