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The bonito is another of the tunay alliances. I 
do not know whether it is determined that this is 
the thynnus pelamgs, or coretta. It is fished for on 
Fort shoal, just outside the point of- Port Royal.— 
The shoal has from five to seven fathoms of water. 
The line used, is small and light. It is necessary 
that it should float, for the bonitos will only take 
bait at the surface. To induce them to rise, a hand- 
ful of the trapong fry, is thrown into the water — 
and on the bonito rising to this deeoy, the baited 
hook with the gathered coil of line, which had all — ; 
this while been held in the hand of the fisher, is 
suddenly thrown out among the fry, and the fish 
snaps if and is caught, He is a large and powerful 
fish, and requires to be helped.in with the grabbet. 
The bonito’s visit to this bank is from August to 
April. In April they become scarce. , 
The great fishing place for sharks, is the bonito 
bank, off the Powder Magazine. At particular sea- 
eons the sharks abound there. These seasons are 
those of the sexual passion, and of feetal maturation, 
when the viviparous shark like the viviparous viper 
must seek a bank to sun itself upon, that it may 
acquire ahigher degree of heat than belongstoa cold- 
bleaded animal. The sharks commence congregating 
on this bank im December. There is another shoal, 
called the Mammee shoal, off Fort Augusta, that is 
a common gathering place for sharks in the season. 
Frequently as the shark is met with in the fathom- 
less ocean, empty and hungry, ready to devour any 
thing that comes in his way, he is not a surface, ‘but | 
