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The dyrers, says he, that use to plunge down into the sea, are 

 annoyed very much with a number of Sea-hounds that come 

 about them, and put them in great jeopardie .... much ado they 

 have and hard hold with these hound-fishes, for they lay at their 

 bellies and loines, at their heeles, and snap at everie part of 

 their bodies that they can perceive to be white. The onely way 

 and remedie is to make head directly afiront them, and to begin 

 with them first, and so to terrifle them ; for they are not so ter- 

 rible to a man as they are as iraid of him againe. Thus within 

 the deepe they be indifferently even matched ; but when the 

 dyvers mount up and rise agaiae, above water, then there is 

 some odds betweene, and the man hath the disadvantage, and is 

 in the most daunger, by reason that whiles he laboureth to get out 

 of the water he faileth of meanes to encounter with the beast 

 against the stream and sourges of the water, and therefore his 

 only reoource is to have helpe and aid from his feUowes iu the 

 ship^ for having a cord tied at one end about his shoulders, he 

 Btraineth it with his left hand to give signe of what daunger he 

 is in, whiles he maintaineth fight with the right, by taiiug into it 

 his puncheon with a sharp point, and so at the other end they 

 draw him to them ; and they need otherwise to pull and hale him 

 but softly : marry, when he is neere once to the ship, unless they 

 give him a sodaine jerke, and snatch him up quickly, they may 

 be sure to see him worried and devoured before their face ; yea, 

 and when he is at the point to be plucked up, and even now 

 ready to go abourd, he is many times caught away out of his fel- 

 lowes hands, if he bestir himself not the better, and put his own 

 good win to the helpe of them within the ship, by plucking up his 

 legges and gathering his body nimbly togither, round as it were 

 in a baU. Well may some from shipbourd proke at the dogges 

 aforesaid with fortes ; others thrust at them with trout speares 

 and such like weapons, and aU never the neare ; so crafty and 

 cautelous is this foule beast, to get under the very belly of the 

 bark, and so feed upon their comrade in safetie. 



Passing by an ' angel ' shark, whom it is very danger- 

 ous for a fisherman to entertain unawares in his net,* 

 and various kinds of other large dog-fish, now accurately 



* Un pScheur anglais, ayant pris un angelot dans ses filets, en 

 fut fort mal traits. — LacSp. 



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