I0O 



The Hijlory of Book I. 



NEEDLE-FISH. 



THere is a Fi(h without fcales, four foot or thereabouts in 

 length, called the Needle-Fip : The head of it is fharp, 

 a foot or better in length, the eyes large and (hining, and en- 

 compafs'd with a red circle: Thefkin of his back is ftreaked 

 was h blew and green lines, and that under the belly is white in- 

 ttrmixt with red: It hath tight fins which fomwhat incline to 

 yellow, and a very (harp tail, whence probably it came to be 

 fb called, as the figure of the head gave the Dutch occafion 

 to name it 'Tabac-pype, that is, Tobacco-pipe. 



TheCoaftsof thefe Ifltands are furnifhed alfo with Carangues 

 and Mullets, which come fometimes into the frefti waters, and 

 are taken in the Rivers as alfo RockcFtJhes^ which are red in- 

 termix with feveral other colours : They are called Rock? 

 Fifties, becaufe they are taken neer the Rocks. There are alfo a 

 kind of fifh called Negroes, or Sea-Devils, which are large, and 

 have a bJack fcale, but their meat is white and excellent good j 

 and an infinite number of Fifh, which for the moft part differ 

 from thole feen in Europe, and have yet no names among us. 



Nor are the Rivers behind hand in fupplyingthe Inhabitants 

 of thefe iOands with abundance of excellent Fi(h:and ifwemay 

 bring fmall things into competition with great, they are pro- 

 portionably to their extent as plentiful thereof as the Sea it felf. 

 'Tis true, there are not any Tikes or Carpes, nor fome other 

 filh which are common in thefe parts 5 but there is great ftore 

 of others which are known only to the Indians, and whereof 

 fome are not much different as to figure from ours. 



CHAP. XVII. 



Of the Sea-Monflers found in thefe Iflands. 



THofe who have writ the Hiftory of Fifh have ranked 

 among the Whales all fuch as are of extraordinary 

 bigneis, as they have comprehended under the name of 

 Monfters all thofe that are of a hideous fhape, or living by prey 

 are the deftrufrive Inhabitants of the Waters, as Lyons, Bears, 

 Tygers , and other wild beafts are of the Earth : We ftiall 

 treat in this Chapter of both, that is of all thofe which are of 

 a prodigious bulk, or dreadful as to their ugly fhapes, or to be 

 feared by realon of the mifchief done by them : So that we 

 muftfor a time dtfcend into the abyffes of the Main, where 

 there are creepingt kings innumerable, as the royar Prophet faith, 



and 



