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Fishing m Ameeioan Waters. 



ScaU of Feet. 



1. Common Swordfish, Xiphias gladius. 2. Indian Swordfish, Histiophorus Indwus. 

 3, Common Tunny, Thpnnis vulgaris, 4. DolpMn of the Ancients, CoryphoBna Mp- 

 puris. 5. Scabbard-fish, Lepidopus mgyreua. 6. Wolf-flsh (a fighting character, be- 

 longing to the family of the Gobies), Anmrhichus lupus. 7. Fishing Frog, Lophius 

 piscatwus. 



during its entire voyage of eighty days from Alexandria, in 

 the Mediterranean, to Plymouth. 



It is a current opinion among sailors that this fish acts a 

 pilot's part to the shark, and accompanies and befriends it as 



The Pilot-fish. — Naucrates ductor. 



opportunity offers ; and certainly there is a great amount of 

 evidence ■which goes to show that there is something very 

 much like a confiding familiarity between these two compan- 

 ions of the weary mariner. Numerous well - authenticated 



