The new found vvorlde, or Antarctike wherin is contained wo[n]derful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trées, plants, mines of golde and siluer: garnished with many learned aucthorities, trauailed and written in the French tong, by that excellent learned man, master Andrevve Theuet. And now newly translated into Englishe, wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient cosmographers.

Of the fish that is in this great Riuer before named. Cap. 26.

BEfore that I procede any further, I meane to treate particularly of the fish that is founde in the fayre Ri∣uer of Ganabara, otherwise named Ianaria, which are in great abundance, amōg the which there are oysters, of which the shell shineth like fine pearles, y^t which oysters, the wild mē do commonly eate with other little fish that the children fish: and these oysters are like to those that beare pearles, of the which also there are founde in that countrey, but not so fine as those of Calicut, and other places in the Easte. Moreouer these wilde men fish for other great fish, of the which there is great plenty. Their vse and maner to take them is, that they being naked in the water, be it fresh or salt, shoote at them with their ar∣rowes, to the which they are very expert, then they draw them out of the water, with a corde made of cotton or of the pille of some trée, or else the fish being dead, floateth of himself aboue the water. Among these fishes there is one very monstrous, the which they name in their language Panapana, lyke to a Dog fish, the skin whereof, is very rough: this fishe hath sixe holes or spurgings on eche side of the throte like to a Lampron, the head monstrous, and the eyes almost at the ende of the heade, so that from the one eye to the other, ther is distant a foote and a half: this fish is geason, notwithstanding the flesh is not so excellēt to eate, for it hath the taste of a Dog fish. Moreouer, there is in this floud or riuer, a great multitude of thornebacke & skaate fish, but not like to ours in Europe, they are twise as large and more longer, the head flat and long, at the ende of which there is twoo hornes, being a foote long

a péece, and betwene these hornes are the eyes, and hir tayle is two foote long, and sclender like a Rats tayle: the wilde men of the countrey will not eate of them for no good, neither of the Torterel. For they imagin and think that euen as this fish is slowe in swimming, it wolde also make them heauie and slowe, by the which meanes they might be taken of their enimies, so that they coulde not runne, nor folow nimbly the course. They name this fish in their language Ineuonia. The fish of this riuer gene∣rally is good to eate, so is the sea fish that coasteth that countrey, but not so delicate as the fish vnder the lyne, & in other places of the sea. I will not forget nor leaue out now that I am in purpose of fish, to shewe a maruel∣lous thing, and worthy of memorie. In this lande or coūtrey about the riuer before named, are trées growing on the sea borders or brinkes, couered with oysters al∣wayes to the very top: you shall vnderstande, that when the sea swelleth, it casteth the floud very high, and far on the lande twise in .24. houres, so that the water couereth oftentymes these trées, so that the oysters being brought in by these springtydes, take holde, and close against the branches, being of an vncredible multitude, of the which when the wilde men minde to eat, they cut the branches of the trée being so charged and loden with oysters, as we doe here a branch of a peare trée, being loden with peares, the which they eate more commonly than greater oysters that are in the sea, for bicause (say they) that they are more wholesomer and haue a better taste, and that they wil not engender feuers, so soone as the others.

Notes

• Oysters ha∣uing pearles.
• The maner of these wild mē to take fish.
• Panapana a kinde of fish.
• A kinde of thornebacke.
• Ineuonea.
• Trees bering oysters.