Carolina Sports By Land And Water: Including Devil-Fishing, Wild-Cat, Deer ...
Carolina Sports By Land And Water: Including Devil-Fishing, Wild-Cat, Deer ...
William Elliott
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He is forced up by the line — he flounders and lashes the waves with his im- mense wings, or plunges desperately for the bot- tom, to which he sometimes cUngs for hxmrs^ tiU, exhausted at last, he yields to the force which draws him to the siuface, and is dispatched with many wounds. Occasionally, after having three harpoons fast- ened in him, and as many lances plunged into his body, he strikes out indomitably for the ocean, and escapes — Cleaving the sportsmen to make their way as best they m...ay, to the distant land. I have been carried twenty-five miles, in the course of a few hours by two of these fish (having struck a relay when my firat sea-horse escaped, and losing both), with three boats in train I The reader must not suppose that there is no risk in the pursuit and capture of such formidable game, 6-2 78 DBVIL FISHING. The «pice of danger mingling with this sport, serves to increase its relish. He who wields the harpoon, should have a quick eye, a steady arm, and a cool head ; for if he loses his presence of mind, and snflFers himself to be entangled in the rope, during the first furions runs of the fish, he may lose his life.
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