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fighters they are almost as much dreaded 
as the Sword-Fish.” 
With these, and many other stories of 
the fish world the Pilot beguiled the te¬ 
dium of the journey. He told about the 
famous Sucking-Fish, or Remora, which 
has a wonderful flat apparatus on its 
head by which it sticks to any object, 
fish, rock, or ship to which it attaches it¬ 
self, and once fixed it is impossible to 
make it loose its hold. The natives in 
Africa use this fish to catch turtles with. 
They tie a long, stout string to the Re¬ 
mora, and throw the fish overboard. 
When the Remora finds a turtle it 
presses its head tightly against it, sticks 
fast, and both are hauled up together. 
Sometimes the Remora will lift a turtle 
weighing many pounds. 
Another of the Pilot’s favorite yarns 
was about the Torpedo-Fish which makes 
