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the Remora as a hunting-fish, and of Diodon appearing under the eanae guise.

How it happened that in the time of ColumbuH Diodon should become confused with Remota in the alleged capacity of a hunting-fiah 18 a puzzling question. We may conjecture, however, that the porco- pine-fish was among the number of specimens which, as Columbus tells

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US in the journal of his first voyage, he ordered to be salted and carried back to Spain.' One of these was thought by Cuvier to have been the

s Id the joumal of the firBt voyage, part of the entrj for Fridaj, November 16, 1192, reads as tollons: "The sailors also fished with neta, end, smoDg mxay others, caught a fish ivhich nas eiactlj like a pig, not like a tunnj, but att cov- ered with a very hard skin, without a soft place except the tail and the e;e>, and an opening on the under side for voiding the nipetfluities. It was ordered to be Salter!, to bring home for the sovereigns to see."

Still earlier, under date of October 16, Columbus wrote this entry, which ma^ be compared in style with the language quoted from Benialdet in describing the Queen's Gardens:

' ' Here the fish are so unlike ours that it is wonderf ul. Some are of (he shape of dories, and of the finest colors in the world, blue, yellow, red and otbar tinti,

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