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And then, too, you can look over the side of the canoe, or from an exposed boulder of coral, and see the fish take your bait unless a breeze is rippling the surface of the water. When bent on sand-mullet afulu the natives call them I was in the habit of going alone, although the moment I appeared in the village carrying my rod, lines, and gun, I was always besought to take one or two men with me.
However, no leather-jackets, wrasse, greedy rock-cod, or keen-eyed trevally being about, the bait touches the sandy bottom, and then you will see one perhaps half a dozen afulu cease poking their noses in the sand, and make for it steadily but cautiously. When within a foot or so, they invariably stop dead, and eye the bait to see if it is worth eating.
Among them were two or three parrot-fish rich carmine, striped with bands of bright yellow, boneless fins, and long protruding teeth in the upper jaw showing out from the thick, fleshy lips; and one afulu a species of deep-water sand mullet with purple scales and yellow fins. Whilst awaiting the rest of the canoes I drew the teacher into our hut and pressed him to take some whisky.
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