In One Of These Channels They Observed A Canoe With Indian Fishermen, Who
Very Quietly Awaited Our Boat Coming Towards Them, And Made Signs Not To
Approach Near Till They Had Done Fishing.
Their manner of fishing was so
strange and new to our people that they willingly complied, and looked on
with astonishment.
They had tied certain small fishes which they call
reves by the tail with a long line and let them into the water, where
these reves attached themselves to other fishes, by means of a certain
roughness which they have from the head to the middle of the back, and
stick so fast that the Indians drew both up together. It was a turtle our
men saw taken in this manner, and the reve clung close to its neck,
which place they usually fasten upon because safe from being bitten by the
other fish, and they sometimes fasten upon vast sharks. When the Indians
in the canoe had thus taken the turtle, having already two others, they
came in a very friendly manner to know what our men would have, and went
by their direction on board the admiral who treated them courteously, and
to whom they would have freely given all they had; but he would only allow
their fish to be taken, and refused their nets, hooks, and calabashes
full of water which they had on board to drink, for which he gave them
some trifles with which they went away very well contented.
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