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young mygalia are hatched, they feed on each other until 
one of them has worked a small aperture through the 
top, by which the remainder escape. 
Although during the day all hands had plenty of 
employment, at night the amusement of fishing with 
the seine brought out a goodly party of volunteers. The 
figures of the men running past the fires on the shore, 
and their noisy mirth, making quite a relief to the 
monotony of the bay. A very curious fish, called by the 
natives the ‘‘doctor fish” {Axinurus), abounds here, it 
has on each side of the tail a little lancet-shaped spine, 
which, when laid hold of, it raises, and unless care be 
used it will inflict a disagreeable wound ; the colours are 
a very pretty brown and yellow. 
Fishes of many sorts are very plentiful, especially 
mullet, {Mullus Barbatus, ThinnuSj Choetodon), and a 
fine-flavoured description of rock cod, curiously marked 
with scarlet, and minute blue spots. 
llth . — A sad accident occurred this afternoon on 
board the ‘ Wilberforce,’ which threw a gloom over all 
her crew, James Morley, a carpenter’s mate, while 
working over the bows of the vessel to stop a small 
leak where the wood joins the iron at the cutwater, fell 
into the sea, and after struggling for a few moments, 
disappeared. The boats were all away from the ship, 
and the only person whose swimming qualifications 
could have been useful, a powerful man of colour, was 
deterred from jumping overboard after him by the fear 
of sharks, which abound in the bay ; some having been 
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