The Meat,
Which Is White And Large, Is Dress'd With This Fish.
{Boneto's.}
Boneto's are a very palatable Fish, and near a Yard long.
They haunt the Inlets and Water near the Ocean; and are killed
with the Harpoon, and Fishgig.
{Blue-Fish.}
The Blue Fish is one of our best Fishes, and always very fat.
They are as long as a Salmon, and indeed, I think, full as good Meat.
These Fish come (in the Fall of the Year) generally after
there has been one black Frost, when there appear great Shoals of them.
The Hatteras Indians, and others, run into the Sands of the Sea,
and strike them, though some of these Fish have caused
Sickness and violent Burnings after eating of them, which is found
to proceed from the Gall that is broken in some of them, and is hurtful.
Sometimes, many Cart-loads of these are thrown and left dry on the Sea side,
which comes by their eager Pursuit of the small Fish,
in which they run themselves ashoar, and the Tide leaving them,
they cannot recover the Water again. They are called Blue-Fish,
because they are of that Colour, and have a forked Tail,
and are shaped like a Dolphin.
{Red-Drum.}
The Red Drum is a large Fish much bigger than the Blue-Fish. The Body of this
is good firm Meat, but the Head is beyond all the Fish I ever met withal
for an excellent Dish. We have greater Numbers of these Fish,
than of any other sort. People go down and catch as many Barrels full
as they please, with Hook and Line, especially every young Flood,
when they bite. These are salted up, and transported to other Colonies,
that are bare of Provisions.
{Black-Drum.}
Black Drums are a thicker-made Fish than the Red Drum,
being shap'd like a fat Pig; they are a very good Fish,
but not so common with us as to the Northward.
{Angel-Fish.}
The Angel-Fish is shaped like an English Bream. He is so call'd,
from his golden Colour, which shines all about his Head and Belly.
This is accounted a very good Fish, as are most in these Parts.
The Bermudians have the same sort of Fish, and esteem them very much.
{Rock-Fish.}
Bass or Rock is both in Salt and Fresh-Water; when young,
he much resembles a Grayling, but grows to the size of the large Cod-Fish.
They are a very good firm Fish. Their Heads are souced,
and make a noble Dish, if large.
{Sheeps-Head.}
Sheeps-Head has the general Vogue of being the choicest Fish in this Place.
Indeed, it is a very delicate Fish, and well relish'd; yet I think,
there are several others full as good as the Sheeps-Head.
He is much of the Bigness of the Angel-Fish, and flat as he is;
they sometimes weigh two or three Pound Weight. This Fish hath Teeth
like a Sheep, and is therefore so call'd.
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