6tt DEVIL FISHING. 



now seen in the southeast, reduced to a mere speck 

 on the horizon, the whole truth was inferred. The 

 sleepers are awakened, and make amends for their 

 forgetfulness by the most strenuous efforts to come 

 to our assistance. Their boat is manned, and pulls 

 lustily toward us. And now the ebb-tide has ex- 

 pended itself, and the first swell of the flood is 

 lending its force in aid of the wind, in taking us 

 toward the desired point, when we observe a speck 

 upon the water, which, enlarging by degrees, pre- 

 sents us with the wished-for boat and welcome faces 

 of our friends from shore. Having cheered us, 

 they row round to take a view of. our prize then 

 pass a rope round the stem of our boat, and, pulling 

 ahead, relieve us of a portion of our toil. In less 

 than five hours from the time he was struck, we 

 had him landed on Bay Point; and a party of 

 ladies, then on a visit there, were gratified in hav- 

 ing an opportunity of observing this singular 

 animal, which, from size as well as peculiarity of 

 structure, may well be accounted as one of the 

 wonders of the deep. He measured seventeen feet 

 across the back, and was so heavy, that the force 

 of fifteen men was insufficient to draw him to high 

 water mark, though sliders were placed beneath 

 to assist his progress. 



PlSCATOK. 



