The Apaches of the Sea 199 



right and left in the extermination of mosquitoes. There 

 are many ways of killing off this worst of pests, but to fill 

 the brooks and bayous with pretty little fishes is one of the 

 best ways. Three species have been brought by Alvin 

 Seale to Hawaii. 



In Australia, a pretty little fish called the " blue-eye," a 

 kind of silverside, serves the same useful purpose and to 

 this end it has been lately imported to the malarial brooks 

 of Italy. 



