A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Hariot
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with vs they bee not vsed for meate, yet for other causes I thought good
to mention. 'Of Fishe.' For foure monthes of the yeere, February, March, Aprill and May, there are plentie of 'Sturgeons': And also in the same monethes of 'Herrings', some of the ordinary bignesse as ours in England, but the most part farre greater, of eighteene, twentie inches, and some two foote in length and better; both these kindes of fishe in those monethes are most plentifull, and in best season, which wee founde to bee most delicate and pleasaunt meate. There are also 'Troutes, Porpoises, Rayes, Oldwiues, Mullets, Plaice,' and very many other sortes of excellent good fish, which we haue taken & eaten, whose names I know not but in the countrey language; wee haue of twelue sorts more the pictures as they were drawn in the countrey with their names. The inhabitants vse to take then two maner of wayes, the one is by a kind of wear made of reedes which in that countrey are very strong. The other way which is more strange, is with poles make sharpe at one end, by shooting them into the fish after the maner as Irishmen cast dartes; either as they are rowing in their boates or els as they are wading in the shallowes for the purpose. [There] There are also in many places plentie of these kindes which follow. 'Sea crabbes', such as we haue in England. |
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