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Divers of thiskind we took, but none{o large he was about 16 
foot long, and 10 foot about the middle. Other fifhes we took, 
as the Bonito, the Spanifh Maquerell, the Albucore, Dolphin, &c. which 
we found excellent meat, bucefpecially the Albucore ,_ which isa Gh 
of fuch a fhape, as it pleafed me much to lookon. Thole we tdok 
were not much, above a yard long, with forked tayles, the grifties 
very firm and{trong, and thebody near that, no bigger than a mans 
wrift; but fuddenly growing upward to inch a greatnets , ee | have 
feldom feenany like him , and{o ftrong withall, asa fayler, a very 
:mov-dbut his tail to getloofe, gave fuch a fpring, as Ke had like 
to have put his arm out of joynt. Thefe kind of fithes , in a clear 
Sun-fhine evening, delight t them(elves and us, by ‘trying which oF 
them can leap higheft above water 5 {othat ‘tisa pretty paftinie, to fee 
fifhes fo large, and glorioufly colour'd , thew themfelves {6 far above 
hele natural Element, pea thapes and colours gave Reni vaniety: -But 
 {port:we faw. noto 
Iwill trouble. younon ee ‘with mentioning the 4 ‘ati ‘OF thapes 
at colours of fithes, till I come to St, Jago 5 oncly one, aficetliat a very 
fmallone; for his body isnot much bigger thana a lake POR egranate, 
and. yethis facultiesare fuch, as may draw more eyes f0. se ik GH Me 
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: the moreadmirable,. whene is ineguntred by his two fora 
caps more than his own length, above, water, and in his fall, Bedi: 
he, fea with fuch. violencia -as, the froth and foam i§ féen 4 a 
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wind againft a Kock ent at gther times, {pouts out the water i 
great quantities ,. the height o ‘of an ofdinary, , Pieepl) Yet this. ‘great 
be true, that ve large be ly. 
‘the ftrangett anno re fi ights that €ai Be | : 
enemics, the Sword,and Thefaal. fhes : For to fhake them off, h* 
‘when “tis beaten by a {trong Welt 
lalter-picce of Nature, is not in my: opinion fo full 6f wonder , nor 
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