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brj^mme of the water, there leapeth soodenly owte of the boate into the 

 sea soo manye fysshers, as maye suffice to holde faste the pia^e. \nt\[l 

 the reste of the coompany haue taken it into the boate. Which thin^re 

 doone, they loose so miiche of the cord, that the hunting- fysshe, may 

 ageyne returne to her place within the water : where by an otlier corde, 

 they let downe to her a piece of the praye, as we use to rewavde grey- 

 houndes after they have kylled theyr game. This fysshe. they caule 

 Guaicanum, but owre men caule it Reuersum. They gave owre men 

 foure tortoyses taken by this meanes : And those of such liyoo-enos that 

 they almoste fylled theyr fysshinge boate. For tliese fys^;hes are 



Curiously enough a repetition of this story hy ^Fartyr 

 himself has been completely overlooked l)y all who have 

 had occasion to refer to his Reversus story. I myself 

 did not find it until, some two years after making notes 

 and copying his account as quoted above from Eden, I 

 chanced to go over the ''Decades" again page by page 

 and stumbled on it. Since Martyr himself has not been 

 quoted directly it will be of interest to give this second 

 account from MacNutt's excellent translation of Decade 

 VIII, Book 8, pages 299-300. 



Tx?t us now consider the hunting fish. Tliis lisl, loniuM-lv vrx.,] ,no 

 somewhat. In my first Decades, addressed to ( nidin;il Ax niiin. I sinu-d 



