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conclusive is recorded in Griffith’s Cuvier, fur- 
nished by Colonel Hamilton Smith, and confirmed 
by his own observations. Captain Richards, 
R.N., during his last station in the Mediterra- 
nean, saw on a fine day a Blue Shark, which 
followed the ship, attracted perhaps by a corpse 
which had been committed to the waves. After 
some time a shark-hook, baited with pork, was 
flung out. The Shark, attended by four Pilot- 
fish, repeatedly approached the bait ; and every 
time that he did so, one of the Pilots preceding 
him was distinctly seen from the taffrail of the 
ship to run his snout against the side of the 
Shark’s head to turn it avv^ay. After some farther 
play, the fish swam off in the wake of the vessel, 
his dorsal fin being long distinctly visible above 
the water. When he had gone, however, a con- 
siderable distance, he suddenly turned round, 
darted after the vessel, and before the Pilot-fish 
could overtake him and interpose, snapped at the 
bait and was taken. In hoisting him up, one of 
the Pilots was observed to cling to his side until 
he was half above water, when it fell off. All 
the Pilot-fishes then swam about a while, as if 
in search of their friend, with every apparent 
mark of anxiety and distress, and afterwards 
darted suddenly down into the depths of the sea. 
Colonel H. Smith has himself witnessed, with in- 
tense curiosity, an event in all respects precisely 
similar.”^ 
Not a few instances are on record of Pilot- 
fishes having accompanied vessels all the way 
from the Mediterranean, and even from its re- 
motest parts, until they dropped anchor in a 
* Animal Kingdom, vol. x. p. 636. 
