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Tne fishing for kine-fish is on the bank on tne 
outside of the Port Royal keys, where the mans set 
down the Maiden Key, the Long Key, and South 
Key. The cuter portion is called the edge. It is 
far out to windward ; so far away that you just bare- 
ly discern the vegetation of the Palisades, when you 
are anchored on the bank. ‘The current strikes 
apon it witha broad swell. The fishing time is 
over at day-break. It is accomplished with lines, 
wired for ten fathoms beyond the hook. When the 
fish has taken bait and is fastened, as he is large 
and powerful, one of the tuny alliances, lhe guaru- 
puca of Margrave, the cybium Solandri of Ans 
thors,—he must be dealt with cautiously. ‘here 
is a prodigious deal of unsatisfactory history in all 
these tassards, as the cybiums are called by the 
French. Nothing will be done conclusively till 
careful drawings are made of all our scomberoid 
fishes. Iam disposed to give some of them an ex- 
cellent name ns table fishes. The kingefish is the 
most recommendable of them. Having hooked him, 
an instrument must be had recourse to, called the 
grabbet. {tis a hook of large size, unbarbed. It 
is lashed on with wire to a staff, and placed under 
the fish when he is to be drawn up from the surface. 
He must be gathered in rushing from side to side as 
he plays on the water. The point is suddenly stricken 
into the body, and he is then jerked into the boat, 
and stunned by a blow from a block of wood they 
call the mutlar. The word is no donbi Spanish, and. 
ehould mean the * killer.” 
