SOME HARBOUR FISHES 



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file-fish, brilliantly coloured, but, as one of the 

 natives on board declared, poisonous. Then a 

 member of the chretodontidae family, a coral-fish, 

 or gilt-head, whose awful mill-stone-like teeth 

 left little doubt that it lived upon the live corals, 

 crushing the hard covering, and devouring the 

 polyp's thick, fleshy body within. 



TRUNK-FISH. 



Finally, I caught a few trunk-fish with formidable 

 jaws, and covered with os.seous plates jointed 

 together like armour. By high noon everything 

 ceased biting, so I relinquished the sport, and went 

 to see how the steerage anglers had fared. 



I found them in a state of great excitement 



