paracoots

Updated: May 28, 2025

We saw also a great many green-turtle, but caught none; here being no place to set a turtle-net in; here being no channel for them, and the tides running so strong. We saw some sharks, and paracoots; and with hooks and lines we caught some rock-fish and old-wives.

William Dampier - A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699