ural angle to a height of fifteen (15) feet or more.
It is wonderful how birds so comparitively diminutive can accumulate
so large a pile. These birds live in pairs, and several pairs use
the same mound. The eggs are deposited at a depth of from one to
three feet; the heat at that depth is very great, more than the hand
can bear for any length of time. I cannot say whether the young,
when released from the mounds, are tended by the parents; they,
however, return and roost in the mounds at night. The flesh of the
'Megapodius' is dark and flavorless, being a mass of hard muscle and
sinew. birds, which may be called game, are not numerous. The brush
turkey ('Talegalla'), the 'Megapodius', several species of pigeon,
with a few ducks and quail, comprise the whole.

9.--Fish are in abundance, and in great varieties; some of them of
strange form and singular brilliancy of coloring. The grey mullet,
the bream--a fish much resembling in general appearance the English
pike--and several others, are excellent eating.

10.--Three species of turtle are plentiful during the season, that
is, the period when they approach the shores to deposit their eggs,
the green, the hawksbill, and another species, which grow to a much
larger size than either of the above. The natives take large numbers
of the former; indeed, from the month of November till February
turtle forms their principal food. The green turtle are taken in the
water by the blacks, who display great address in "turning" them;
they are approached when asleep on the surface; the black slips
gently from his canoe and disappears under water, and rising beneath
the animal, by a sudden effort turns it on its back, and by a strong
wrench to the fore flipper disables it from swimming. The fisherman
is assisted by his companions in the canoe, and a line is secured to
the turtle. This is hazardous sport, and deep wounds are frequently
inflicted by the sharp edges of the shells, which in the female
turtle are very sharp. A singular mode of taking the hawksbill
turtle is followed by the natives here. This custom, though said to
be known so long back as the time of the discovery of America by
Columbus, is so strangely interesting that I will give a short
account of it, as I have seen it practised. A species of sucking
fish ('Remora') is used. On the occasion to which I allude two of
these were caught by the blacks in the small pools in a coral reef,
care being taken 'not to