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Page 32
... fish and fruit , flesh and fowl . Everywhere those excellent white crayfish , the varo , are our chief delicacy . Here 1 My soul is defiled with sin . THE PENINSULA . 33 and there pine - apples are 32 A LADY'S CRUISE .
... fish and fruit , flesh and fowl . Everywhere those excellent white crayfish , the varo , are our chief delicacy . Here 1 My soul is defiled with sin . THE PENINSULA . 33 and there pine - apples are 32 A LADY'S CRUISE .
Page 48
... FISH - NETTING - CATCHING SHARKS - A ROYAL MAUSO- LEUM SUPERSTITIONS OF EAST AND WEST CENTIPEDES- INTOXICATING DRINKS - INFLUENZA - DEATH OF MRS SIMPSON . — Chez THE REV . JAMES GREEN , Oct. 27th . I HAVE had a day after my own heart ...
... FISH - NETTING - CATCHING SHARKS - A ROYAL MAUSO- LEUM SUPERSTITIONS OF EAST AND WEST CENTIPEDES- INTOXICATING DRINKS - INFLUENZA - DEATH OF MRS SIMPSON . — Chez THE REV . JAMES GREEN , Oct. 27th . I HAVE had a day after my own heart ...
Page 51
... fish more varied and eccentric , and their scaly dress striped and zigzagged with patterns like those on an ingenious clown , or perhaps suggestive of quaint heraldry . 1 To - night I saw some gigantic specimens of that wonderful star - ...
... fish more varied and eccentric , and their scaly dress striped and zigzagged with patterns like those on an ingenious clown , or perhaps suggestive of quaint heraldry . 1 To - night I saw some gigantic specimens of that wonderful star - ...
Page 52
... fish , and strangely beautiful sea- anemones , are the gay blossoms . The butterflies which woo these flowers of the sea are shoals of the most exquisite minute fishes , which dart through the crystal water like rays of opal . Now it is ...
... fish , and strangely beautiful sea- anemones , are the gay blossoms . The butterflies which woo these flowers of the sea are shoals of the most exquisite minute fishes , which dart through the crystal water like rays of opal . Now it is ...
Page 53
... fish ; and as these glide in between the rock - ledges , up swims a joyous little shoal of delicate pale - green fish , with perhaps a tiny silvery eel or two ; and some there are pure scarlet , others bright blue streaked with scarlet ...
... fish ; and as these glide in between the rock - ledges , up swims a joyous little shoal of delicate pale - green fish , with perhaps a tiny silvery eel or two ; and some there are pure scarlet , others bright blue streaked with scarlet ...
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