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Further Expedition Planned Thank-offerings of Notu Chiefs The Voyage A Gigantic Flatfish Negotiating a Difficult Bar Moat Unhealthy Spot in New Guinea Hostility of Natives Precautions at Night Catching Ground Sharks and a "Groper" Shark-flesh a Delicacy to the Natives Wakened by a War Cry A False Alarm A Hairbreadth Escape Between "Devil and Deep Sea" Dangers of the Goldfield Two Miners Eaten Alive Unexpected Visit from a White Man "Where's that Razor?"
God knows I am. I'll make it up to you, somehow." It was the first time in all her dashing and successful career that Fanny Brandeis had felt the sting of pity. She resented it, hotly. And from Theodore, the groper, the "But at any rate," something within her said, "he has always been true to himself."
Your mind is in a wusser beclouded state than the poor nergoes' we are seeking to aid. You are a groper in the dark cellar of sin. O sinful man! 'There is a sparkling fount Come, O come, and drink. No! you will not come and drink." "Yes, he will," said the landlord, "if you'll treat. Jest try him."
He recognized the man as a young lawyer, much identified with politics; a mere acquaintance, yet it was a night to make any speaking animal seem a friend, and Mr. Belden took a couple of steps along beside him. "Waiting for a train?" he said. "Oh, thunder, yes!" said Mr. Groper, throwing away the stump of a cigar. "I have been waiting for the last half hour for the train; it's late, as usual.
The sheeps-head, red and black groper, sea-trout and other, familiar fish of the sportsman, receive him with frank bonhommie or fearless curiosity. In their large round beautiful eyes the diver reads evidence of intelligence and curious wonder that sometimes startles him with its entirely human expression.
It made the good committeeman, who was rich and full of power, feel a little uncomfortable, as he tried to cover his embarrassment with effusive cordiality. In the background stood Mr. Groper, wet, and breathing hard, but plainly full of admiration for his tall friend, and the position he held as the centre of the group. The visitors referred all arrangements to him.
The generality of the coast settlers look upon most coloured fish as 'bad to eat, if not 'poisonous, and particularly so in the case of the delicious blue groper or blue-fish, the 'leather jacket, and the scaleless bonito, which latter occasionally visit the shores of the colony in large 'schools, and take a bait eagerly.
A few hours later, at low tide, we caught, in the same pool, seven schnapper, averaging about 8 lb. each; a brown groper of 20 lb., a dozen or more of deep sea bream, beautiful silvery-scaled fish, with a pale greenish tinge on the head and back, and bright yellow fins and tail; and several huge cray-fish, which clung to our hooks and did not let go their hold in time.
This was my first view of this species of groper at close quarters, and these three presented, a very beautiful sight, the very dark blue of the whole of their closely-scaled, shining bodies, and the very light blue of their fins and tails making a pretty contrast. Two were about 15 lb. to 16 lb. each, the other about 35 lb. to 40 lb., and nearly four feet in length.
Blacks remain for hours together in the water on the reefs when beche-de-mer fishing, and the record of an attack is rare indeed. Recently a vigorous young black boy was attacked by a groper while diving for beche-de-mer.
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