CHAPTER XVI. 
OTHER FISH. 
The Parana swarms with fish, many of which 
grow to an immense size. Any fisherman going 
there would do well to devote some time to them; 
for, though the dorado is king of all, there are 
others worth catching, and their strange shapes 
add to their interest. In the still nights as we 
lay at anchor huge fish would roll up to the top; 
and when you asked the captain or crew what 
they were, the answer was always manguruzu. 
Now the manguruzu is an abominable looking 
catfish. It is said to run up to two hundred 
pounds in weight, and I quite believe it: 
certainly some of those which splashed up at 
night were very big. Indeed some kinds 
of catfish grow much bigger. President 
Roosevelt’s expedition caught one in Brazil, 
three and a half feet long, which contained a 
monkey, and he was told on good authority of 
one more gigantic still, called the piraiba, 
which lives on the lower reaches of the Madeira 
and Amazon, is nine feet long, and can make 
