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which ufed to ling every morning and evening, and had 
a pipe fweet as a flagelet; our people often thought they 
were under the very tree whence the notes of this little 
bird came, yet none of them were ever certain they had 
feen it. 
They had a variety of fifh, betide the fort I have already 
defcribed (page 123); and feveral fmaller kinds, of very 
beautiful colours and variety of fhapes, particularly one 
to which the Englifh gave the name of the Unicorn , from 
a horn growing out of its forehead ; its fkin was rough, 
like a fmall fliark or dog-fijh , which it alfo refembled 
in fhape and colour. They had the grey mullet, which 
they crimped, and frequently eat raw. They kill the fliark, 
when they chance to come within the coral reef; this 
they do by fpearing them, and afterwards getting ropes 
round them, then dragging them on fhore; the flefh of 
the fliark was efteemed by them as very delicate. They had 
alfo feveral kinds of fhell-fifh ; fuch as the fea cray-fifh, of 
the fame fort as in the Mediterranean and other European 
coafts :—and turtle, which the natives boiled, and feemed to 
admire. They had be fide oy tiers, mufcles, and a variety 
of cockles, particularly the Kima cockle *; this they fre¬ 
quently got by diving, at which the natives were amaz¬ 
ingly expert; they would fometimes dive down in fix or 
feven fathom water, and if the fhell was very large, two 
* Chama Glgas of Linnaeus. 
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