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speak for himself, and his account is- all the more inter- 

 esting and valuable because he gives certain details as to 

 the training and care of the fisherman fish which are 

 absent from the other accounts, and of which he seems 

 possibly to have had some personal knowledge. 



There is a fishing of these Manati and of the tortoise in the islands of 

 Jamaica and Cuba, whicli, if what I shall now say were not so public 



ability. I should not dare to write. And also it is believed that when 



than a pahna, wlncli tliey call ihe Rovorsus fi.h. u-ly in appearance but 



best in the sea for eating, because it is dry and firm and without watery 

 parts, or at least it has very few; and many times I have eaten of it 

 and so am able to testify of it. 



When the Indians wish to tame and keep any of these Reversus 



salt water from the sea, and thei-e they give it food and make it tame, 

 until ii is of the size which 1 liavo said or a little more, and fit for their 



■Is iiM'ir >(M/c,l liy liic liiilc Reversns, flees through the 

 Ikm: ur ;iiintii,.f: ;iM,i 111 tlic iiieantime the Indian fisher- 



