CTp.XVII. T^Caribby-Iflands. 



manner with the Pinnothere, and other Sbell-fifh not much un- 

 like a Crab, as is affirmed by Montagne, lib. 2. ca. 12. 



The meat of the Requiem is not good, and therefore not 

 eaten, unlefs it be in cafe of great neceffity : yet is it conceiv'd 

 by fome, that while they are young they may be tolerable meat. 

 Some curious perfonsdo carefully fave the Brains found in the 

 heads of the old ones, and being dried they keep it, and they 

 fay it is very good for fuch as are troubled with the Stone or 

 Gravel. 



Some Nations call this Monfrer Tiburon and Tuberon: But 

 the French and Portuguez, commonly call it Requiem, that is to 

 lay, Reft, haply, becaufe he is wont to appear in fair weather 5 

 as the Tortoifes alfo do, or rather becaufe he foon puts to reft 

 whatever he can take : His Liver being boiled yields a great 

 quantity of oyl very good for Lamps, and the Skin of it is 

 ufed by Joyners to polilh their work. 



RE MORA. 



BEfides the Pilots before mentioned, the Requiems are many 

 times accompany'd by another kind of little fifties called 

 by the Dutch Sugger, becaufe they ftick fo clofe to the bellies 

 of the Requiems as if they would fuck them. The French ac- 

 count it a kind of Remora , which name they have becaufe 

 they ftick to the Ship as if they would ftop their courfe : They 

 are about two foot in length, and proportionably big: They 

 have no fcales, but are covered with an Afti-colour'd fkin 3 

 which is as glutinous as thofe of Eeles. Their upper-jaw is a 

 iittlefhorter then the lower 5 inftead of teeth they haveiittle 

 rifings , ftrong enough to break what they would fwallow : 

 Their eyes are very fmall , of a yellow colour .* They have 

 fins and a certain plume as fome other Sea-fithes have, but 

 what's moft remarkable in them, is, that they have on their 

 heads an oval piece made fomewhat like a crown .* it is flat 

 and ftreaked above with feveral lines which make it look 

 briftly : It is by this part that thefe fifti ftick fo clofely to the 

 Ships and Requiems, that fometimes they muft be kill'd ere they 

 can be gotten off.* They are eaten fometimes , but in cafe of 

 neceffity, when other better filh cannot be had. 



LAM ANT IN. 



OF all the Sea-monfters that are good to eat, and kept for 

 Provifion, as Salmon and Cod are in Europe, the moft e- 

 fteemed in thefe TOands is a certain filh by the French called La- 

 mant:n,by the Spaniards Namanttn and Manaty : It is a Monfter 

 that in time grows to that bulk, that fome of them are eigh- 

 teen foot in length, and feven in bignefs about the middle of 



