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They usually make their first appearance about the second week in November, and are always followed by a great number of very large sharks and saw-fish, which commit dreadful havoc in their serried and helpless ranks. Following the sea-salmon, the rivers are next visited in January by shoals of very large sea-mullet blue-black backs, silvery bellies and sides, and yellow fins and tails.
During November and December the bars of these rivers are literally black with incredible numbers of coarse sea-salmon a fish much like the English sea bass which, making their way over the bars, swim up the rivers and remain there for about a week.
The hound-shark, the basking-shark, and the port-beagle were not less loyal; and these, the most perfectly organized of my cartilaginous tribes, handed me over to the deep-swimming Norwegian 'sea-rat. Thus I kept steadily southward, the water growing warmer hour by hour, now riding on the serrated snouts of saw-fishes, now moving in the midst of battalions of sword-fish, now acknowledged by the great pike, now vaulting above the surface on the backs of flying-fish, now clinging to the spines of sturgeons, now passing through illimitable shoals of cod, now borne by the swift sea-salmon, now dazzled by the golden scales of the carp, now passing over miles of flat-fish, now hailed by monster conger-eels, now swimming down files of leering hippocampuses, now received by congregations of staid aldermanic lobsters.
Following the sea-salmon, the rivers are next visited in January by shoals of very large sea-mullet blue-black backs, silvery bellies and sides, and yellow fins and tails.
The saw-fish, to which I have before alluded as harrying the swarms of sea-salmon, also make havoc with the jew-fish, and very often are caught on jew-fish lines.
* The 'saw-fish' of the Australian tidal rivers is very distinct from the sword-fish of the deep sea. The saw-fish, to which I have before alluded as harrying the swarms of sea-salmon, also make havoc with the Jew-fish, and very often are caught on Jew-fish lines.
During November and December the bars of these rivers are literally black with incredible numbers of coarse sea-salmon a fish much like the English sea-bass which, making their way over the bars, swim up the rivers and remain there for about a week.
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