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or to the small number of fishermen^ it is a fact, 

 supported by the testimony of the best informed 

 navigators^ that no country in the world furnishes 

 a greater quantity of those that are excellent.* 



The baySj harbours^ aiid^ in a particular man- 

 nerj the mouths of the large rivers^ swarm with 

 them of all sizes, and in some places they are 

 caught without any trouble. The river Cauten, 

 which is three hundred toises broad at its mouthy 

 and of sufficient depth to admit a ship of the 

 linCj is, at certain seasons of the year, so filled 

 with fish, for seven leagues from its mouth, that 



* In tlie road of Valparaiso is caught an abundance of ex- 

 cellent fish of all kinds, as king- fish, bream, soles, &c. besides 

 an infinite number of those that are migratory, as pilchards, 

 and a species of cod that come upon the coast in the months 

 of October, November, and December ; also shad, and a kind 

 of anchovy, which at times are in such uiultitudes, that they 

 are caught with baskets on the surface of the water. Frazier's 

 Voyage, vol. i. 



We had also fish in such plenty, that one boat w-juid, \vi)h 

 hooks and lines, catch, in a few hours, as much as would icrve 

 a large ship's company two days; ;hey were of various sorts, 

 all excellent in their kind, and manv of them weighed from 

 twenty to thirty pouuds.-^Hawkesivorlh's Voyage of Covim'jn 

 dore Byron, chap, viii. 



This part of Masafuero is a very good place for refresh* 

 Mient, especially in the summer season ; the goats have ueoii 

 mentioned already, and there is all round the island such 

 plenty of fish, that a boat may, with three hooks and hues, 

 catch as much as will serve an hundred people; among others 

 we caught excellent soal fish, cavallics, cod, halibut, and craw- 

 fish, &c.--ifazi''^e5:fori/i i Fuyaiseof CaPf- Carteret, chap, ii, 



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