170 SCIENCE SKETCHES. 
é A CUBAN FISHERMAN. 
: H, but you must see Don Felipe, — he knows 
all about fishes!” is the first advice which 
the naturalist receives when he begins to make col- 
lections of fishes in the markets of Havana. The 
writer once had occasion to make such a collec- 
tion, and he soon found that among fishermen 
and fishmongers the phrase “amigo de Don 
Felipe” was ever a passport to honest dealing and 
to a real desire to aid him in his work. For every 
fisherman in Havana knows Don Felipe, and 
looks upon him as a personal friend. Each one 
regards the fame which Don Felipe’s studies of the 
fishes is vaguely understood to have brought him 
in that little-known world outside of Havana as in 
some sort reflected on himself. The writer was 
told, by a dealer in the Pescaderfa Grande, that 
for twenty years Don Felipe Poey was there in the 
markets every day, when at noon the fishes came 
in from the boats, and that he knew more about the 
fishes of Cuba than even the fishermen themselves. 
And now that Don Felipe no longer. visits the 
markets, he is not forgotten there, and many a 
rare specimen still finds its way from the Pesca- 
derfa to Don Felipe’s study in the Calle San 
Nicolas. 
