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This account of Commerson-Lacepede's is very circum- 

 stantial and exceedingly interesting, but it is not the first 

 account of the fisherman fish, and not even the first for 

 East African waters, for in 1809 and 1810 Henry Salt 

 under orders of the British government made a voyage 

 to Abyssinia by way of the Cape and the Mozambique 

 Channel, stopping at Masuril, a village on the harbor of 

 Mozambique. Of this visit he says under date of Sep- 

 tember 9, 1809 (his book was published in 1SU): 



rarities of the plaoo. he imulo mo a i)n>M"iit . . . nt a l,n ~uck'M^--(ish 



the eoast in catching: turtlt's. The uunlv nf doin- iliis is l.y <-.,nliiiiii- the 

 fish with a line to the boat, wlieii it is said iiivai i;il)ly \o dan I .M wavds, 



K:\rVu'r still (in the latter half of tlie eiuliteenth cen- 

 to the ( ';ij>c (if Unite. ill that part of his book 

 (lealiiiu' with the land of Xatal, in lln' i-'feiicli translation 



