96 SEA FISH OF TRINIDAD 



Gros Roche "Charles Tassard" was waiting along with the 

 boat of his cousin " Jolle-rouge." "Chambe fort," cried 

 the wily Charles, and four more iron bolts were lanced into 

 the fish's body. Still faster and faster, with five large pi- 

 rogues training after it, and ten or twelve harpoons in its back, 

 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 la", 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, 



lo 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 



