For About Twenty
Minutes He Had Fought Against Such A Strain As I Had Never Before
Used Upon A Fish, But I Had Now Adopted Hooks Of Such A Large
Size And Thickness That It Was Hardly Possible For Them To Break,
Unless Snapped By A Crocodile.
My reel was so loosened from the
rod, that had the struggle lasted a few minutes longer I must
have been vanquished.
This fish measured three feet eight inches
to the root of the tail, and two feet three inches in girth of
shoulders; the head measured one foot ten inches in
circumference--it was the same species as those I had already
caught.
"This closed the sport for the day. We called all hands to carry
the fish to camp, and hoisted the flag, which was quickly
followed by the arrival of a number of men from Sofi, to receive
all that we could spare. The largest fish we cut into thin
strips,--these we salted and dried; the head made delicious soup,
with a teaspoonful of curry-powder.
"September 26.--The weather is now intensely hot, and the short
spear grass is drying so rapidly that in some stony places it can
be fired. The birds appear to build their nests at various
seasons. Many that built three months ago are again at work;
among others is a species of black Mina, that takes entire
possession of a tree, which it completely covers with nests
coarsely constructed of sticks. A few days ago I found several
trees converted into colonies of many hundred dwellings.
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