10 PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES 



The following may serve as one of the many 

 instances of Providence in the main producing 

 system, and is every where maintained. Even 

 insects people inland ponds and streams with fish, 

 and are often carried by themselves to great dis- 

 tances. The great river beetle, which lives ha- 

 bitually on the eggs of fishes, climbs sometimes 

 in the evening, on the reeds, high enough for its 

 flight, and then takes wing. One was caught 

 whilst flying, and being put into water, it emitted 

 the eggs by which it was gorged, some, in part 

 digested, and some not at all ; these eggs pro- 

 duced fish of various sorts. Bullet. E7mv..l829, 

 p. 145; Gill's Tech. Rep. 1828, p. 333. 



SOME OF THE USES TO WHICH FISH ARE APPLIED. 

 FISH MADE INTO BREAD AND BISCUIT. 



At the city of Escier they dry their fish in the 

 sun, and, by its extreme heat, reduce them to 

 powder, like meal, and knead them into loaves, or 

 mix them into a liquid form like frumenty ; and in 

 consequence of the scarcity of grain, the natives 

 make a kind of biscuit of the substance of the 

 larger fish (suppose tunny), in the following 

 manner ; first, they chop it up into very small 

 particles, and moisten the preparation with a 

 liquor rendered thick and adhesive by a mixture 

 of flour, which gives to the whole the consistence 

 of paste. This they form into a kind of bread, 



