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This time we fastened a suitable minnow to a bit of coral and placed 
it where the shrimp could smell It. Iianediately all the slippery dicks 
in the area ca,rm swiiraalng up to have a share, and we were pleased to see 
them bump their noses against the glass. Glass is completely invisible 
to fish, and always they are greatly surprised not to be able to go 
through it . 
Before long the shrimp came out of his den — or at least part-way 
out, and began digging a mmp towards his minnow. On two or three occasions 
it came entirely into the clear, aai I saw that it had a fan tail, like 
that of a lobster. It also has what appears to be a etrai^t slash of 
Biouth done in white. Before this one had reached the minnow I ran out 
of film. This really is stuff for the big camera — when it comes. 
In the evening we dropped down on a new reeflet at the E®uth of the 
bay. There were no tmnsparent fish, and few lucifers. But we did see 
one strange thread-like fish perhaps eight or ten inches long. The odd 
thing about it was its method of swimming. The first half of its body 
(we could see rib lines so we were sure it was a fish) was heM horizontally 
in the water, but the after half of it hung down and forward so that it looked 
like a slender letter "V" on its side. The largest paart of the body was 
no more than an ei^th Inch in disinter, I’d imagine, and the whole thing 
translucent. Tom brought the thln-mesh net and began gently to scoop up 
the tail-eM of the fish, assuming (aa did I) that the fish Md no ability 
to put on any kind of speed. Haturally we were wrong. The net had no more 
than touched its drooping tail than it simply vanished. Heither one of \is 
