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FOREST AND STREAM 
May, 1921 
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DR. HENSHALL ON 
THE GULF COAST 
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After seining a few days about the 
islands, coves and tributary mouths of 
Charlotte Harbor, the schooner sailed 
for Port Tampa to lay in supplies and 
to have some repairs made. From 
Tampa Bay we sailed to the western- 
most groups of keys known as the Dry 
Tortugas. Here the Grampus was 
moored in the harbor of Fort Jefferson, 
on Gardiner Key. The shores of the 
several keys were seined for pelagic 
fishes, but as the seines could not be 
hauled about the jagged coral reefs it 
was necessary to fish for the beautiful 
coral fishes with hook and line, in the 
same way as the market fishermen of 
Key West. 
One day Dave and I were fishing from 
the wharf at Fort Jefferson; Dave with 
handline, to which method he was accus- 
omed as a cod-fisherman, and I with rod 
and reel. Some queer-looking fishes had 
been landed when I heard quite a com- 
motion and saw a large fish jumping 
and flopping about on the wharf, as 
David ran swiftly away crying out that 
rattlesnakes were still after him. He 
had landed a green moray, about four 
feet long, which was whirling and ro- 
tating and bounding about in the man- 
ner of a gyroscope. Its eel-shaped body 
was covered with velvety, dark green 
slime, and after examining it carefully I 
cut the line and threw it overboard. In 
view of what follows it may be well 
enough to say something about the 
morays, or muraenas. 
They are found in all warm seas, but 
are more plentiful in the Orient and 
number about one hundred species, some 
growing to a length of six or eight 
feet. They have a smooth, leathery skin 
covered with slime, and are remarkably 
ill-favored and repulsive in appearance, 
with a tail as long as the body. They 
have a remarkable development of the 
muscles about the head and neck and 
jaws, and some of the bones of this 
region, being rudimentary, allow the 
mouth to be opened very wide, and the 
upper jaw to be thrown backward and 
upward in the manner of a snake. The 
jaws are armed with numerous long, 
strong and sharp teeth in single or 
double serades. They are exceedingly 
vicious, pugnacious and combative, 
more dangerous than the alligator gar, 
or even the alligator itself, out of the 
water. They are greatly dreaded by 
the market fishermen who suppose they 
are poisonous. 
It will be remembered by the reader 
of the classics that Velius Pollis, to 
punish a slave, caused him to be thrown 
into a pond filled with muranas, or 
morays, to be devoured piecemeal. I 
have met writh but two species, the green 
and speckled moray, or murrays, as they 
are sometimes called at Key West, j 
They are common about the coral reefs 
of Florida, where they hide in holes 
and crevices and feed on the coral fishes. 
The speckled moray is the largest, is 
blackish-brown in color and its sides 
I 
identify you. 
