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cafio nally a piece of fat pork, he may be in- 

 duced to continue, at the fide of the {hip» 

 while a rope, let down into the water, is paf- 

 fed over his head, and drawn tight round his 

 body in order to take him a ive, and if it hcip- 

 pens to flip off, he is flupid enough to re- 

 main until it is fixed a fecond time. We 

 caught a very large one in this manner ; and 

 alfo took a fmaller one with the hook, which 

 the failors confumed as delicate food. 



The fhoals of dolphins are often fo im- 

 menfe as to convert the fea into a kind of rich 

 and dazzling mine, in which the lively inter- 

 changes of colour out-rival all the fplendour 

 of brilliants and gold. 



The novelty of immenfe multitudes of 

 fi{h darting from the fea and taking wing in 

 the air, you will believe attracted our attention. 

 To fpeak of fifhes flying might feem to be a 

 traveller's tale ; we were, therefore, led to a 

 minute invefl;igation of the fact. We watched 

 them with a fceptical eye, and, at many dif- 

 ferent times, before we admitted even the 

 evidence of our fenfes. It appeared poflTible 



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