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By the difproportion in the length cf its jaws, I mould 

 imagine this to be a fifh of prey, though a circumftance 

 concerning the bait with which it is taken feems to contra- 

 dict this. The fifh from which this drawing was made 

 weighed 32 pounds Englilh, but is often caught of 70 

 pounds and upwards, as I have been told by the fifliermcn, 

 for I never faw one larger than the one I am now defcrib- 

 ing. The largeft of this kind are caught about Rofetto and 

 the mouth of the river, but they are very numerous, higher 

 up as far as Syene and the firft cataract. This was caught 

 at Achmim, the ancient Panopoiis, and the manner in which, 

 this is performed is very uncommon and ingenious, and by 

 the few trials that I faw is alfo very fuccefsful. 



They take a quantity of oil, clay," flour, and honey, with 

 ftraw, and fome other thing that makes it flick together, 

 they knead or tread it with their feet till it is perfectly mix- 

 ed. They then take two handfuls of dates, and break 

 them into fmall pieces about the bignefs of the point of 

 the finger, and flick them in different parts of this mixture, 

 which begins now to have fuch confiflency as to adhere 

 perfectly together, and appears in form like a Chefhire 

 cheefe. In the heart of this cake they put feven or eight 

 hooks, with dates upon them, and a ftring'of flrong whip- 

 cord to each. The fimerman then takes this large mafs 

 of pafle, and putting it upon a goat's fktn blown with wind, 

 rides behind it out into the middle of the flream ; there he 

 drops it in the deepefl part of the river, then cautioufly 

 holding the ends of each of the firings flack, fo as not to 

 pull the dates and the hooks out of the heart of the com- 

 pofition, he gets again afhore upon his fkin a little below 

 where he had funk the folid mafs, 



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