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save and except the deg. “‘Capre tamen in pluri- 
mas similitudines transfigurantur,” is the observa- 
tion of Pliny. “Sunt capre, sunt rapicape, sed 
illa Alpes, hee transmarini situs mittunt.” (Natu- 
ralis Historia, ib. vit. ch. lit.) 

The annua! egg-gathering visit, which the boat: 
men of Port Royal make to the Pedro keys, we may 
set down as a remnant of Indian life. In the work 
entitled “the discovery of America, by Christopher 
Columbus, compiled from his papers by his son Don 
Ferdinand,” we are informed that on the 13th of 
November 1492, the Discovery squadron weighing 
from the Rio de Mares, Cuba, stood to the eastward, 
to search for the island called Bohio by the Indians, 
and coming to an anchér among some high-raised 
islets on the coast, found them to be places visited 
by the Indians at certain seasons of the year, for 
supplies of fish and birds. ‘The islands,” Colaum- 
bus says, ‘f were not inhabited, but there were seen 
the remains of many fires which had been made by 
the fishermen ; for it afterwards appeared that the 
people were in use to go over in great numbers in 
their canoes to these islands, and to a great number 
of other uninhabited islets in these seas, to live up- 
on fish, which they catch in great abundance, and 
upon birds and crabs, and other things which they 
find on the land. The Indians follow this employ- 
ment of fishing and bird catching according to the 
seasons, sometimes in one island, sometimes in ano- 
ther as a person changes his diet, when weary of 
