THE GUIACAN DESCRIBED BY COLUMBUS. 447 



great Head, over which hangs a Skin like a Bag. This Fish is the Natives Fisher; for having a 

 I.ini' or liiiiiilsoui Conl thstm-d about him, so soon as a Turtel, or any other of his Prey, comes 

 above Water, tlicy give him Line; whereupon the Guaican, like an Arrow out of a Bowe, shoots 

 to\v;ml the other Fish, ami then gathering the Mouth of the Bag on his Ik-ad like a Purse-net 

 holds them so fast, that he lets not loose till hal'd up out of the Water." 1 



'Narrative of Voyage of Columbus, in Ogilby't "America," 1671, p. 49 (with very onrioua picture of Indian 

 fishing). 



