. Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings. ?. ? // . /?////,//,.>, , //</,; &/ //t/ I ? 201 These curious animals are attended by a train of beautifultish, six or seven inches long, marked with dark stripes over thepale hues of the iris, like the pilot fish, which always accompanythe shark, and like them I never saw these little fish but un
. Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings. ?. ? // . /?////,//,.>, , //</,; &/ //t/ I ? 201 These curious animals are attended by a train of beautifultish, six or seven inches long, marked with dark stripes over thepale hues of the iris, like the pilot fish, which always accompanythe shark, and like them I never saw these little fish but underthe Medusa; whose protection they seem instinctively to claimfrom the bonitos, albacores, and other voracious fish, which arecontinually pursuing them and the flying-fish; but these have theadvantage, for the instant their gigantic enemy approaches, theyswim under the Medusa, which is so poisonous that no fish at-tempts to touch it; and it would be impossible to snap up onewithout the other, so closely do the little fugitives adhere to theirprotector; while the unfortunate flying-fish, in endeavouring toescape a watery foe, are devoured by the aquatic birds conti-nually hovering over them. The sharks on the Guinea coast are of a tremendous size, andoften follow the slave vess
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