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THE GIANT SQUID OP NEWFOUNDLAND. 



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English, and American ships. Their 

 habit of moon-gazing, also, is some- 

 times taken advantage of by the 

 fishermen on the coast of Maine, 

 who capture them as bait for cod- 

 fish ; they go 'out on dark nights 

 with torches in their boats, and by 

 advancing slowly towards a beach 

 drive them ashore. Violent storms 

 heap great windrows of dead squids 

 on the beach, where they are gather- 

 ed up ; and they are also sometimes 

 taken on lines adhering to the bait 

 set for fishes. These drives and ac : 

 cidents happen in the spring when 

 the cuttles are flocking into shallow 

 water to lay their eggs. 



Since this solidly-fleshed animal 

 is so extensively eaten by other an- 

 imals it is not surprising that men 

 also should number it among the 

 edible products of the sea. " The 

 flesh of the large cephalopodous 

 animals," says Simmonds, "was es- 

 teemed as a delicacy by the ancients. 

 Most of the Eastern natives and 

 those of the Polynesian Islands par- 

 take of it and relish it as food. They 

 are exposed for sale, dried, in th& 

 bazaars or markets throughout In- 

 dia, and dried cuttle-fish may be 

 seen among the articles of Chinese, 

 Japanese, and Siamese food. In, 

 Chili the flesh is also considered a 

 delicacy, and in Barbados the bas^ 

 tard cuttle-fish or calmar (Loligo 

 sagittata, Lam.) is used as an article 

 of food by the lower classes." 



In the Mediterranean, also, par- 

 ticularly near Tunis and along the 



