CHAPTER VI 



OCEAN FISH AND OCEAN FISHING (continued} 



WHEN I stepped on board the Superb l for the 

 first time, my ideas about turtles in their native 

 element were rather hazy. I knew that, although 

 found at sea, and living a considerable part of 

 their lives away from land, they were not fishes, 

 but marine reptiles. 



Once, when going along Leadenhall Street, I 

 noticed an inquisitive and expectant crowd block- 

 ing up the pavement round the tail of a big van 

 that was backed up to the entrance of the " Ship 

 and Turtle Tavern." On joining the group, I 

 found they were gazing at several large turtles 

 that lay helplessly on their backs in straw, 

 somebody suggested that they looked like i> 

 of aldermen, drunk and incapable, after an old- 

 fashioned city dinner ! 



On one of my birthdays, I remember being 



1 I made several voyages on the Superb. 



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