The Takuo. 
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natives swam after the canoe and managed to 
get in. Quite a quarter of an hour, however, 
passed before the takuo was sufficiently done 
up to be hauled alongside and stunned by blows 
from a paddle. It was found that the barb of 
the spear had gone right through the tip of the 
bony upper jaw, and had scarcely injured the 
fish at all. Being quite impossible to take such 
an enormous-girthed creature into the canoe, it 
was towed ashore amid the plaudits of the 
assembled villagers. I was shown some huge 
strips of its sun-dried flesh by the trader, and 
quite believed his assertion that it weighed over 
three hundred pounds. 
