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FISHING OFF THE CAPE 

 OF GOOD HOPE. 



Who has tried the fishing in Simon's Bay, Cape of 

 Good Hope ? Well, I have, and had sucli a take of fish 

 as seldom do I remember falling to my lot. Those 

 who have not visited southern Africa will please to 

 learn that the coast is wild, irregular, and rocky ; pos- 

 sibly as uninviting as can be imagined ; and the waves 

 that roll in on this distant shore, are giants in stature. 

 Outside the anchorage of Simon's Bay is a light-ship; 

 it marks the end of a most dangerous reef, which has 

 pounded many a hole in stout-built vessels : but this 

 reef, though repellant to navigators, is most attrac- 

 tive to the inhabitants of the briny deep; and close 

 to the light-ship, on the edge of the reef, we dropped 

 anchor and commenced work. 



The bait, which certainly deserves a descrijition, 

 for such curious-looking shell-fish I never ]>reviously 

 saw, Avas neither an oyster nor a mussel; it looked a 

 little like both, for it had a hard external shell, and 



