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kept up by just such ridiculous speeches as 

 Jack tars can make. We were soon fast into 

 another pair, and continued catching them 

 till fifty-seven lay on the deck. Then with 

 all our hooks gone and lines more or less 

 broken up, we were forced to knock off, while 

 there were apparently a hundred more waiting 

 and ready to be captured. The deck at that 

 time was not in a condition to receive either 

 the admiral or a health officer, but with six 

 hands at work the fish were soon disposed of 

 and the deck washed down. When this was 

 nearly completed, the captain was at the 

 wheel, and, looking down the rudder port, 

 spied some little fish. 



" The fun is not all over yet. There must 

 be a ' man-eater ' in this neighbourhood ; for 

 here are his pilot fish seven of them," said he. 



These little fellows look like mackerel, are 

 grand eating, and accompany this particular 

 shark, the man-eater. They always precede 

 them, and many a poor fellow's body has been 

 saved from his ponderous jaws by the appear- 

 ance of these little fellows, so that while they 

 act as pilots for the fish, they are often the 

 protectors of the man. Where the captain 



