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Somerset Strand, and Castelnau says Cape fishermen also call it 
Assance. The Rog, or Roch, of Holland, Skate of England, is 
closely related to the Cape form (Raja maculata), and the word 
Vleet, used in Saldanha Bay, is most probably the name of a 
fish resembling the Vleet (Raja batis) of Holland, though it has 
not been described nor have I seen it. 
We have commenced this section of names borrowed from 
Europe with Dutch names, we may fittingly close it by considering 
a pre-eminently English name. | 
If the tiger of the sluggish rivers of Holland, the Snoek, or Pike, 
was prominently in the minds of the Dutch when naming the fish 
of the new land, it might be expected that the lordly Salmon would 
be readily suggested to the British by any form at all resembling it. 
I have been informed (Mr. Thompson) that the name Cape Salmon 
has been applied to the commonplace Kabeljauw, and even to the 
culinary-looking Stock-fish, but it is now appropriated almost 
exclusively by the Geelbek, a fish which, seen fresh from its 
native element, certainly does call to mind the brilliance and 
majestic proportions of its Huropean namesake. 
Unlike the name Snoek, however, ‘‘Cape Salmon” had a rival 
already in possession—‘“‘ Geelbek,”’ and, moreover, its patrons were 
not undivided. Another fish was found on the Hast Coast at 
Port Elizabeth, which presented additional claims to the name, 
resembling the Salmon not only in shape and colour, but in 
sporting qualities, and showing almost as much game and fight 
on the rod as the monarch of mountain streams. It may be true 
that according to scientists it is only a large kind of Herring (Lops 
saurus), and it is even indifferent eating, but the towns of the 
Eastern Province stick to the name, and no little confusion is 
caused thereby. Thus one of my correspondents at Knysna in- 
formed me that the Cape Salmon there was very rare, another 
that it was very abundant; the explanation being that they were 
each referring to different claimants to the name. 
We can leave the litigants to future generations, who will prob- 
ably decide in favour of the Herring with the sporting qualities, 
which has besides no other name of its own. The Stock-fish and 
Kabeljaauw may retire from the contest, though we need not grudge 
the little glory which the latter still retains in the remote little 
village of Paternoster on the West Coast (see List). 
We have now exhausted the list of names borrowed from Dutch 
or English fish, and have to mention two which have been adopted 
from the vocabulary of the cosmopolitan sailor. These are the 
Bonito (Thynnus pelamys), probably the Barneta of Britannia 
