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These gar-fish of the North Sea were of comparatively small size, about fifteen inches in length, but of most delicious flavor. Their long and slim backbone being of a deep emerald green color, Captain Allen, with characteristic sagacity, concluded that these fish were poisonous and unwholesome, and banished them from the cabin.
Next behind, on the right, was a long-nosed gar-fish singing alto, and proud of her slender form, with the last new thing in folding fans held in her fin. In the fore-ground squatted a great fat frog with big bulging eyes, singing base, and leading the choir by flapping his webbed fingers up and down with his frightful cavern of a mouth wide open.
Bowen to throw a fishing-line over the stern and let it trail, with the expectation of catching some mackerel. We succeeded in capturing several of those excellent fish, and also two or three gar-fish; a kind of fish I have never met with elsewhere excepting in the tropical seas.
So blaze away at the 'gators, O ye Florida tourists! you will not kill many of them, anyway: their shells are too thick, but spare the pelicans, who are a harmless race of fisherfolk, like ourselves. There were great numbers of large turtles in the lake, Chelonura and Trionyx, from two to three feet long; gar-fish also, almost as big as the alligators.
At length, loading the deck with wild ducks, and fish that fairly jumped into the little boat to avoid their enemies, the ferocious gar-fish, we took the governor and staff on board, and floundered back at a snail's pace to T . At the landing, we boarded a dilapidated street car drawn by mules, for the hotel.
My entries therefore, for the rest of the cruise, are likely to be "few, and far between." Glimpses of the bottom of the Sea The Gar-Fish The Booby and the Mullet Improvement of Liberia Its Prospects Higher social position of its Inhabitants Intercourse between the White and Colored Races A Night on Shore Farewell to Liberia. Reminiscence of Robinson Crusoe. September 1. At Porto Grande.
One received a second blow from the inexorable gar-fish, which, for a moment, increased his agony and his exertions. He then lay motionless upon the surface, at rest from all trouble. The conqueror came a third time, seized his prey, and swam swiftly out of sight. The other mullet, which rose half an hour afterwards, swam closer to the ship than his predecessor, and received no second blow.
What is it? a snake with a bird's head? No: a snake has no fins; and look at its beak: it is full of little teeth, which no bird has. But a very curious fellow he is, nevertheless: and his name is Gar-fish. Some call him Green-bone, because his bones are green. But what kind of fish is he? He is like nothing I ever saw.
And I can tell you, that if you would only study that gar-fish long enough, and compare him with another fish something like him, who has a long beak to his lower jaw, and none to his upper and how he eats I cannot guess, and both of them again with certain fishes like them, which M. Agassiz has found lately, not in the sea, but in the river Amazon; and then think carefully enough over their bones and teeth, and their history from the time they are hatched why, you would find out, I believe, a story about the river Amazon itself, more wonderful than all the fairy tales you ever read.
The fugu was very vain and always played the coquette around the hooks of the fishermen who always liked to eat her because she was so sweet, yet her flesh was poison. "How strange it is that men will angle after that ugly hussy, when she poisons them," was the oft-repeated remark of the gar-fish.
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