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cage is placed ; into this the different kind of fish 

 enter in great numbers, and are taken ; women 

 and children are employed in smoking them for 

 the rainy season. Edin. Phil. Journal, vol. v. 



Fishing at Corfu. There was a fisherman 

 paddling about on the sea, he looked very pictu^ 

 resque in his white jacket and large straw hat, 

 seated on a bundle of rushes fastened together, 

 and moving about on the water with one oar ; 

 when he landed, he drew up his boat, and threw 

 it over his shoulders ; he had in his basket sea 

 scorpion, porcine scorpsena, shrimps, crabs, mul- 

 let, &c. &c. Sketches of Corfu. 



Extraordinary Method of Fishing by the na- 

 tives of Cuba. The fish employed was the suck- 

 ing fish, or remora ; a strong small twine was 

 made fast round the tail of the fish, which was 

 kept in a vat until its services were required, and 

 then thrown overboard ; it ran instinctively to- 

 wards the first fish which its line permitted it to 

 reach, and instantly made itself fast by its oval 

 disk, or sucker at the top of its head; the moment 

 the fisherman felt that such was the case, he 

 gently drew in the line unto the surface ; then 

 'carefully thrust his finger under the disk, which 

 broke the connection, and secured the game ; he 

 then permitted the sucking fish to return again 



