CHAPTER XY. 



HAULING THE SEINE. 



Attacked by a sting-ray The nurse shark Gambols beneath the 

 water Tameness of fishes Angel-fishes Hauling the seine by 

 moonlight The mangrove-root city A wonderful catch A 

 shark in the toils. 



TJRTLE and egg time had 

 passed, yet the naturalists 

 lingered on the reef. The 

 days continued the same clear 

 sunny ones they had experi- 

 enced all summer, the blue 

 waters of the gulf often for 

 many hours being as smooth as 

 glass, with not a ripple save 

 where some leaping barracuda 

 or hungry pelican disturbed the 

 surface. These days w r ere spent 

 by the party in deep-water collecting, the boat 

 being sculled slowly along just outside the great 



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