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sons, when fishing boats, by the inclemency of the 

 weather, cannot venture out. 



Gent. Mag. vol. xiii. p. 496. 



Fuegian Method of Fishing. The Fuegians 

 subsist principally by fishing, and have recourse 

 to a remarkable expedient to supply the place of 

 a hook. They fasten a small limpet in its shell 

 to the end of a line, which the fish readily swal- 

 lows as bait. The greatest care is then taken by 

 them not to displace the limpet from his stomach 

 in drawing the fish up to the surface of the water ; 

 and when there, the fisherman watches a favour- 

 able moment, and with great dexterity, retains 

 the fish by the line in one hand, seizes hold of it 

 by the other, and quickly lifts it into the canoe. 

 Voyage of H. M. S. Chanticleer. 



Fishes jfishing for one another. The frog-fish, 

 mouse-fish, angler, bellows-head, sea-devil, with 

 several other names, belong to a fish which sepa- 

 rately, from its fins, Dr. Smith describes very like 

 a tadpole or pollywog; from the sides and angle of 

 his mouth project numerous threads, soft, flexi- 

 ble, and terminating in bulbous extremities. Old 

 writers assure their readers that these threads 

 were fishing lines, and the bulbous extremities 

 baits, which nature had provided for its use in 

 angling. Buffon relates that this fish lies con- 

 cealed in the weeds, allowing the lines to float 



