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The shark, ^ among others, is of a prodigious size, and there are 

 some lip to twelve feet in length. There are a quantity of small 

 ones of different sizes, which are so hungry, that if a man had the 

 misfortune to fall into the water, they would tear him with their 

 teeth ; a proof of which is, that the day following our disembarca- 

 tion, when proceeding to take soundings, they snatched the oars 

 from the rowers, and gave us a good deal of trouble. We 

 experienced suchlike during all the time we remained in the 

 island. 



There is a fish of a size nearly equal to that of the shark, and 

 of the same form, which they call at Bourbon Endormi^^ an 

 appropriate name, for it sleeps in the water. If they wish to 

 capture it they pass a rope around the tail, and haul it on shore ; 

 when it awakes, and does not attempt to bite, but tries to escape. 

 The skin is very like shagreen, and of the same colour as that of 

 tlie shark. 



The Carangue^ there is excellent ; the largest I have seen was 

 three feet and a half in length. The Caranqiies pursue the other 

 small fish which fly to escape them, and fall afterwards into the 

 jaws of the sharks, who show tliem no more mercy than the 

 former. 



The Mtdlds^ are in quantity ; the largest that I have seen are 

 of two feet and a-half in length. There are many liays,'^ and 

 numbers of some fish they call Capitanes.'^ I have taken a fish of 

 the shape of a Lamprey, having the mouth of a serpent, with 

 teeth very sharp ; I did not think it jjrudent to eat it, not know- 

 ing it at all. {Vide ante, p. 174.) 



The Rougets^ are common, besides numerous other fish whose 



' Le Reqidn. Carcharodon sp. Carcharias. Vide ante, p. 96. 



2 Basking Shark, Cetorhinus. 



^ Cobbler, or Cordonnier Horse-mackerel, Cararix sp. A species of 

 Hynnis is also called Carangue. 



* Mugil sp. Mugd axdlaris, etc. The Midet voleur of the Ci't'oles is 

 the best for eating of the mullets. 



^ Raia sp. 



" Capitaiiae =: Pentapus dux. 



'' Rou(Tetle = Sen-aum^. Cardinal = Priacaitthiis. 



