118 FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
J. Matthew Jones, Esq., of Halifax, N. S., in his delightful 
little book, ‘“‘ The Naturalist in Bermuda,” records the case of the 
Bermudian schooner, Earl! Dundonald, arrived in the port of 
Hamilton, which was pierced by one of these formidable fish off 
the coast of British Guiana. 
In the museum of Charleston College, Charleston, S. C., is 
preserved a fragment of the snout of a bayonet-fish, apparently 
Tetrapturus albidus. By the kindness of the curator, Dr. G. E. 
Manigault, I was allowed to examine it and copy the label, 
which reads as follows: “The brig Amsterdam, bound to Char- 
leston, owned by F. C. Bray, was struck in the Gulf Stream by 
a monster or swordfish, which caused the vessel to leak consid- 
erably. By great exertion she was kept free, and gained the 
port in safety.” 
Messrs. Foster, Waterman & Co., of Boston, presented to the 
Boston Society of Natural History, in 1869, a plank of Southern 
pine perforated by and containing a portion of the sword of a 
swordfish (H7stéophorus) from the side of the ship Pocahontas, 
owned by them. (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xiii, 1869, p. 64.) 
ATTACKS OF THE SWORDFISH UPON WHALES. 
One of the traditions of the sea, time-honored, believed by all 
mariners, handed down in varied phases in a hundred books of 
ocean travel, relates to the terrible combats between the whale 
and the swordfish, aided by the thrasher-shark. The swordfish 
was said to attack from below, goading his mighty adversary to 
the surface with his sharp beak, while the thrasher, at the top of 
the water, belabored him with strokes of his long, lthe tail. 
An early explorer of the Bermudas gives the following ver- 
sion of the story, with tone so fresh and enthusiastic that we 
might well believe him to have seen the occurrence with his own 
eyes. The passage occurs in ““Newes from the Bermudas,” a 
pamphlet dated “ Burmuda, July, 1609,” and reprinted in ‘“‘ Forces 
Historical. Tracts,” vol. 11: 
“ Whale, Swordfish & Threasher.—The swordfish swimmes un- 
der the whale, & pricketh him upward. The threasher keep 
above him, & with a mighty great thing like untoa flaile, hee 
so bangeth the whale, that hee will roare as though it thundered, 
