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Updated: May 22, 2025
Such is the case with the great wooded belt north of the Gold Coast, where even the second-growth becomes impenetrable without the matchet, and where the swamps and muds, bred and fed by torrential rains, bar the transit of travellers. The Whydah and Gaboon countries are notable specimens of once populous regions now all but deserted.
That great round glory of pellucid stuff, A fish secreted round a grain of grit. A single snake-slough and an eight-ribbed turtle were found. These growths are filmed with spiders' webs, whose central shafts lead to their nests. The highest levels, only a few feet above water, are grown with a dense bush that wants the matchet.
Caught by hook, 12th May, 1841. No. 54. Native name, MATCHET. "Common blue shark" of the settlers. Specimen four feet and a half long; have been seen longer. A female had four young alive when taken. Spiracles behind the eyes. Caught by hook, 16th August, 1841. No. 26 CESTRACION PHILIPPI, Mull. and Henle. Native names, MATCHET, KORLUCK, or QUORLUCK. "Bull-dog-shark" of the sealers.
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