No. G27] STUDIES IN ECHENEIS OB REMOBA 295 



For Malagassy waters he quotes the use of Echeneis as 

 given by Middleton, Conimerson-Lacepede and Salt, and 

 for other waters other authors to be referred to later. 

 He is not clear as to its use in his own time but he seems 

 to indicate that in his day it was so used. 



Our next reference is dated 1897. In the Antananarivo 

 Annual for that date (published by the London Mis- 

 sionary Society at the capital of Madagascar) there is 

 under ''Natural History Notes" a translation by James 

 Wills of a native manuscript which reads as follows : 



In the sea off the nort Invest, coast of :Maaao:asear a fish is found 

 called by the people Hamby. It is round and long, somewhat like a 

 lizard, but its tail unfolds for swimming' like that of a ,eold-fish, and it 

 has fins on each side. The length of a full-sized one is about that of a 

 man's arm, and its girth about that of his thigh. Its back fin. from 



The above account is given almost word for word by 

 James Sibree in his book "A Naturalist in Madagascar/' 

 1915. Sibree, whoso experiences in Madagascar cover a 

 period of fifty years, and who as his book shows was a 

 very close observer, evidentlv believed in this use of the 

 fish. 



The Hunting-Fish of the AVksi Inliks 

 However, the accounts quoted of tlu^ rniiaikablo use 

 of the Remora as a Imnting fisli in tho Mo/.ainMcjUc coun- 

 try are not the first that we liavc of such ciiiploynu'ut. 

 For the very begiiuiiu.u' wc must ixo hiwk to tiic second 



5 This is probably the tortoise-.l.ell tmtlo. 



