A HAUL OF SALMON. 
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Poetically speaking, he should have seized the 
faithful hound in his arms, and rushed wildly 
away, after the manner of the Bedouin and his 
beautiful Arab mare 1 
In the evening the seine was hauled with much 
success. We lauded at the first cast twenty-three 
very fine salmon, their weight ranging from tliree- 
and-a-half to fourteen pounds ; and a few small 
turbot from three to six pounds each. We caught 
next a shark six feet long. In all we took thirty- 
nine salmon, most of them from eight to fourteen 
pounds; half-a-dozen turbot; and a bucket-full of 
fine prawns. The salmon were the Salino oricntalis 
of Pallas, and the pretty spotted species named S. 
leucomaensis. The **tui'bot ol the sailors, I believe, 
is the Japanese halibut (Hippoglossus olivaceus). 
The hideous star-gazer, with its great staring eyes, 
starting from the top of its rough, spiny head, the 
Japanese bass, and Burgher’s gurnard, were likewise 
taken. All these fish, enough to allow' the ship’s 
company a pound and a-half per man, were taken 
amongst the tangled masses of Laminaria and the 
