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among them. It has happened that the cachelot 
whale has been seen tumbling and spouting in these 
waters. The numerous villages of the coast men- 
tioned by Columbus have disappeared, and this 
narrative of the I.erd of the isles, with its decorated 
pageantry is the first and last picture we have of 
Indian life upon these shores. 

‘Che garrison net at Port Royal is 150 yards long. 
The water is too deep for the seine any where nearer 
than the opposite shores of Green-bay and the 
HTealthshire inlet by the Great Salt Pond, and in 
the ponds and lagoonsabout. The artillery soldiers 
make+a boat’s crew and haul it on those shoal 
grounds. In the several seasons it gives a prodigi- 
ous diversity of fishes; some of the most curious 
are maliheeas and torpedos—called here tremblers, 
from éremola the Mediterranean name for the tor- 
pedo. There are large supplies of mullets to be 
obtained by nets of this description from the Fort 
Augusta ponds. 
‘The gulls and terns; and boobies and noddies; 
are few at this time. ‘llley are engaged in the 
labours of the Nursery on the Pedro-keys. In Jaly 
and August, alter their broods are full-fledged, they 
come hither, and forming flocks of several hundred, 
feed daily in the Salina ponds at Passage Fort, 
retiring in similar flocks to roost in the mangroves 
outward at sun-down. | , 
The osprey, pandion haliectus, fishes in the waters 
at the mouth of the Rio-Cobre, and hovers after 
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the nets at Port- Henderson. 
