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Finally provide as much detail as possible of everything that can pertain to this matter either for the product or the way of fishing with vaire, nets, fire, brazin and stagnant bait?

We could fish for turtles all year round but most of this fishing, which is now very little, is done from March to September inclusive.

We do this fishing in three ways, namely with a folle, a net shaped like a seine, the meshes are square and about a foot and a half large. There is lead on one of the ribs of the folle and light wood on the other to hold it taut. Both ends are stopped with rocks attached by ropes. The turtle while coming and going gets trappedin this net which sometimes stays in the sea for weeks. The fishermen visit them every day to find out if the fishing has been successful.

The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument.

It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy.

The fish when sprinkled with salt 24 hours, it's worth green cod. The bad thing is that it is very rare. Sardines different in shape, size and taste from European sardines or the frank sardine (franche) also called cailleux. There are night sardines similar to those of Europe except that they have a small golden stripe from the head to the tail. There is no fish that takes effect more quickly than these sardines. They come in an hour. There are also stingrays similar in the body to the European rays which are not curly and dull as those from the coast of Brittany. The tail of this one is sometimes two fathoms long, thick at the end which sticks to the body like the tip of the little finger and tapers down to the other end. It is a compound of small knots like the edge of a fish covered with a black and very hard film. In addition to the stingray of which I spoke above with a large tail, there is another species which has a little tail. There is above the tail of this stingray a stinger-shape bone which is very poisonous. Those who are stung suffer severe pain, onthe injured part, for nearly 24 hours. There are also fish called captains of two species. There is a species that is fished on the shallows of Grande Terre whose head is better than a calf's head. The captain fished in Martinique are worthless. There are also parrots fish, niggers? food fish? (Manger? n?gre) (There is also a fish called garfish? (orphie). This fish is the aiguille of the Brittany coast, but it is less good here. Satroux, a type of cuttlefish without any bones. Finally, I know several other species of useless fish, but it would take too long to give an exact description of them. A few of these fish above do some harm. There is a species in Guadeloupe called white beard(barbe blanche)which has a good taste, but you mustbe hungry and have nothing to eat to dare to try it because this fish kills wonderfully. To test it, we cook the head, part of the body as well as the liver, which is more dangerous, then we give this head to a dog. If immediately after eating it does not die, we eat it. There are no crocodiles in the Windward Islands. There used to be plenty of lizards there. There are few now.The lizards are made like those in France.The largest are about as big as the arm for the largest of the body and long from the nose to the end of the

What kinds of fishing are carried out in Saint Domingue for the inhabitants' particular food, and who are the people engaged in it?

If there is fishing in specific seasons, when does it begin and how long does it last?

Are turtles fished and in how many different ways is this fishing done?

When does the season begin and how long does it last?

Is turtle fishing no longer practised in the Cayman Islands as it was in the past? If this fishing has ceased, for what reason?

Are manatees also brought in, as in the past, when they were fished in considerable numbers in the Amazon River?

Is the same fishing still practised elsewhere, and who are the people involved in it? Are manatees sometimes fished in the course of Saint-Domingue? An accurate description of this fish, as the illustrations do not correspond with what has been written.

If there is an annual turtle fishery in St. Christopher

When and where does this fishery take place, in what season and with what instruments.

Whether the inhabitants go beyond their coasts to engage in this fishery

If manatee is sometimes fished around the island and if it is caught regularly and often.

What kind of small fishing is done in St. Christopher during the year and how do the fishermen who work there do it, whether with nets, Varre, Brasin, fire or dormant bait.

What kind of small fishing is done in St. Christopher during the year and how do the fishermen who work there do it, whether with nets, Varre, Brasin, fire or dormant bait.

Whether porpoises are fished there and what colour they are