CHAPTER XV. 



HAULING THE SEINE. 



Attacked by a sting-ray — The nurse shark — Gambols beneath the 

 water — Tameness of fishes — Angel-fishes— Hauling the seine by 

 moonlight — The mangrove-root city — A wonderful catch — A 

 shark in the toils. 



■g TJRTLE and egg time had 



passed, yet the naturalists 



lingered on the reef. The 



days continued the same clear 



sunny ones they had experi- 



enced all summer, the blue 

 waters of the gulf often for 

 many hours being as smooth as 

 glass, with not a ripple save 

 where some leaping barracuda 

 or hungry pelican disturbed the 

 surface. These days were spent 

 by the party in deep-water collecting, the boat 

 being sculled slowly along just outside the great 



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