SOME SOUTH AMERICAN FISHES 151 



skins to perfection. Brazilian ladies were con- 

 spicuous by their absence, their servants doing 

 the marketing. 



Ignoring the magnificent and tempting display 

 of fruit (oranges and pine-apples reigning supreme), 

 we passed into a department abutting on the 

 landing-place, where many catamarans were dis- 

 charging their live cargo. Such a glitter, and 



HORSE-lI.-iCKEREL. 



such a variety of piscine form and colour ! 

 Truly the waters had brought forth abundantly ! 

 Dolphins, purple and gold (some of sixty pounds 

 weight), black pig-fish striped with broad bands 

 of violet, horse-mackerel, garoupas or groupers 

 — a good market fish, very tenacious of life, exist- 

 ing for hours out of the water, 40 lbs. to 300 lbs. 

 in weight, brownish colour sprinkled with grey 

 above and with somewhat of red below, its fins 



