62 “ FISHY ” EXPERIENCES. ^ 
covered vdtli the proceeds of the thousand fishing 
craft that daily crowd the offing. The fish exposed 
for sale are not such as we see in fishmongers’ shops 
at home. In huge tubs swimming crabs and 
marbled cray-fish are kickihg and pushing each 
other ; flying-fish and bonitos, lovely even in 
death; monster congers, with horrid teeth and 
pointed jaws ; crimson-spotted flat-fish, rough spiny 
rays, and huge mis-shapen skates ; snaky marbled 
eels ; glittering silver i^erch, with sharp s^nny fins ; 
here and there a rough brown shark, with evil eye 
and grinning mouth ; file-fishes and cow-fishes, in 
their shagreen coats-of-mail, and bodies cased in 
bony plates; spotted dog-fishes and dragonets; 
blenuy-bullheads, with beards hanging from their 
lips; silvery, bright, clean-looking scabbard-fishes, 
with pointed chins ; the shining dollar-fisli, the red 
and grey gurnards, with their great spiny, armour- 
plated heads; and the sluggish, freshwater, whis- 
kered cat-fishes. 
My next fishy ” experience occurred while the 
‘‘Actseon” was lying off Macao, near the en- 
