i68 The Under-Water World 



which was making towards them, and 

 being come near made a sign to them in 

 it to attend till they had done fishing. 

 Their manner of fishing was so strange 

 and new to our men that they were will- 

 ing to comply with them. It was thus : 

 they had tied some small fishes they call 

 Reverse by the tail, which run themselves 

 against other fish, and with a certain 

 roughness they have from the head to 

 the middle of the back they stick fast to 

 the next fish they meet ; and when the 

 Indians perceive it, drawing their line 

 they hand them both in together. And 

 it was a tortoise our men saw so taken 

 by these fishermen, that fish clinging 

 about the neck of it, where they 

 generally fasten, being by that means 

 safe from other fish biting them ; and 

 we have seen them fasten upon vast 

 sharks." 



Fish of all kinds, as is only too well 

 known, tend to become highly luminous 



