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If we also bring turtle flesh and where does this kind of cured meat come from?(Answerin the margins) Sometimes, they come from Cape Verde and Tabac (Tobago?) but rarely.What fish species do we see in Martinique for which there is fishing of some importancefor the food of the inhabitants? Make a list of the names of all the fish such as thazard, sardes, beaumes, dorades, etc. and mark those which are most common and in greatest number.(Answer in the margins) The same as in Guadeloupe.If there are a lot of crocodiles and lizards?(Answer in the margins) No crocodiles, a few lizards.If the first are dangerous and if they leave the waters to come ashore to find their food? If we sell lizards publicly to eat them and make stews or in what other ways do we prepare them?
(Answer in the margin)
We rarely sell them, there are few large ones that can be eaten, but there
are large quantities of small ones called anolis of which houses are full even though cats destroy them. We prepare them like chickens, in fricassee.
If green and dry cod are brought to Martinique and where does it come from? (Answer in the margins)
Some green comes from Canada and around 2000 quintals per year of dry cod which is not enough for a quarter of what would be consumed.
If other kinds of salted fish are brought there, what are they and where do they come from?
(Answer in the margins)
We sometimes bring thazard,vieille and other fish from Cape Verde.
If we sometimes find ambergris on the coast and in what season and after what time?
(Answer in the margins)
None. If calves or sea wolves, oxen or sea cows are seen and their uses and if they are there in large
numbers?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sea lions are seen and which are of the same species
and in this case, give a description?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sometimes whales appear on the coast and if you catch them?
(Answer in the margins)
Sometimes mulardes or blowers but rarely and we take none.
If sea bears are seen there and if merman
(tritons) or mermaids (sir?nes) were caught a few times?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If porpoises are sometimes or often caught there and what color are they?
(Answer in the margins)
We often see them but we very rarely take them. They are like those
in Europe.
If there are a large number of shellfish on the coast and what species?
(Answer
in the margins)
Same as in Guadeloupe.

If we also bring turtle flesh and where does this kind of cured meat come from?(Answerin the margins) Sometimes, they come from Cape Verde and Tabac (Tobago?) but rarely.What fish species do we see in Martinique for which there is fishing of some importancefor the food of the inhabitants? Make a list of the names of all the fish such as thazard, sardes, beaumes, dorades, etc. and mark those which are most common and in greatest number.(Answer in the margins) The same as in Guadeloupe.If there are a lot of crocodiles and lizards?(Answer in the margins) No crocodiles, a few lizards.If the first are dangerous and if they leave the waters to come ashore to find their food? If we sell lizards publicly to eat them and make stews or in what other ways do we prepare them?
(Answer in the margin)
We rarely sell them, there are few large ones that can be eaten, but there
are large quantities of small ones called anolis of which houses are full even though cats destroy them. We prepare them like chickens, in fricassee.
If green and dry cod are brought to Martinique and where does it come from? (Answer in the margins)
Some green comes from Canada and around 2000 quintals per year of dry cod which is not enough for a quarter of what would be consumed.
If other kinds of salted fish are brought there, what are they and where do they come from?
(Answer in the margins)
We sometimes bring thazard,vieille and other fish from Cape Verde.
If we sometimes find ambergris on the coast and in what season and after what time?
(Answer in the margins)
None. If calves or sea wolves, oxen or sea cows are seen and their uses and if they are there in large
numbers?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sea lions are seen and which are of the same species
and in this case, give a description?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sometimes whales appear on the coast and if you catch them?
(Answer in the margins)
Sometimes mulardes or blowers but rarely and we take none.
If sea bears are seen there and if merman
(tritons) or mermaids (sir?nes) were caught a few times?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If porpoises are sometimes or often caught there and what color are they?
(Answer in the margins)
We often see them but we very rarely take them. They are like those
in Europe.
If there are a large number of shellfish on the coast and what species?
(Answer
in the margins)
Same as in Guadeloupe.

If we also bring turtle flesh and where does this kind of cured meat come from?(Answerin the margins) Sometimes, they come from Cape Verde and Tabac (Tobago?) but rarely.What fish species do we see in Martinique for which there is fishing of some importancefor the food of the inhabitants? Make a list of the names of all the fish such as thazard, sardes, beaumes, dorades, etc. and mark those which are most common and in greatest number.(Answer in the margins) The same as in Guadeloupe.If there are a lot of crocodiles and lizards?(Answer in the margins) No crocodiles, a few lizards.If the first are dangerous and if they leave the waters to come ashore to find their food? If we sell lizards publicly to eat them and make stews or in what other ways do we prepare them?
(Answer in the margin)
We rarely sell them, there are few large ones that can be eaten, but there
are large quantities of small ones called anolis of which houses are full even though cats destroy them. We prepare them like chickens, in fricassee.
If green and dry cod are brought to Martinique and where does it come from? (Answer in the margins)
Some green comes from Canada and around 2000 quintals per year of dry cod which is not enough for a quarter of what would be consumed.
If other kinds of salted fish are brought there, what are they and where do they come from?
(Answer in the margins)
We sometimes bring thazard,vieille and other fish from Cape Verde.
If we sometimes find ambergris on the coast and in what season and after what time?
(Answer in the margins)
None. If calves or sea wolves, oxen or sea cows are seen and their uses and if they are there in large
numbers?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sea lions are seen and which are of the same species
and in this case, give a description?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sometimes whales appear on the coast and if you catch them?
(Answer in the margins)
Sometimes mulardes or blowers but rarely and we take none.
If sea bears are seen there and if merman
(tritons) or mermaids (sir?nes) were caught a few times?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If porpoises are sometimes or often caught there and what color are they?
(Answer in the margins)
We often see them but we very rarely take them. They are like those
in Europe.
If there are a large number of shellfish on the coast and what species?
(Answer
in the margins)
Same as in Guadeloupe.

If we also bring turtle flesh and where does this kind of cured meat come from?(Answerin the margins) Sometimes, they come from Cape Verde and Tabac (Tobago?) but rarely.What fish species do we see in Martinique for which there is fishing of some importancefor the food of the inhabitants? Make a list of the names of all the fish such as thazard, sardes, beaumes, dorades, etc. and mark those which are most common and in greatest number.(Answer in the margins) The same as in Guadeloupe.If there are a lot of crocodiles and lizards?(Answer in the margins) No crocodiles, a few lizards.If the first are dangerous and if they leave the waters to come ashore to find their food? If we sell lizards publicly to eat them and make stews or in what other ways do we prepare them?
(Answer in the margin)
We rarely sell them, there are few large ones that can be eaten, but there
are large quantities of small ones called anolis of which houses are full even though cats destroy them. We prepare them like chickens, in fricassee.
If green and dry cod are brought to Martinique and where does it come from? (Answer in the margins)
Some green comes from Canada and around 2000 quintals per year of dry cod which is not enough for a quarter of what would be consumed.
If other kinds of salted fish are brought there, what are they and where do they come from?
(Answer in the margins)
We sometimes bring thazard,vieille and other fish from Cape Verde.
If we sometimes find ambergris on the coast and in what season and after what time?
(Answer in the margins)
None. If calves or sea wolves, oxen or sea cows are seen and their uses and if they are there in large
numbers?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sea lions are seen and which are of the same species
and in this case, give a description?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sometimes whales appear on the coast and if you catch them?
(Answer in the margins)
Sometimes mulardes or blowers but rarely and we take none.
If sea bears are seen there and if merman
(tritons) or mermaids (sir?nes) were caught a few times?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If porpoises are sometimes or often caught there and what color are they?
(Answer in the margins)
We often see them but we very rarely take them. They are like those
in Europe.
If there are a large number of shellfish on the coast and what species?
(Answer
in the margins)
Same as in Guadeloupe.

If we also bring turtle flesh and where does this kind of cured meat come from?(Answerin the margins) Sometimes, they come from Cape Verde and Tabac (Tobago?) but rarely.What fish species do we see in Martinique for which there is fishing of some importancefor the food of the inhabitants? Make a list of the names of all the fish such as thazard, sardes, beaumes, dorades, etc. and mark those which are most common and in greatest number.(Answer in the margins) The same as in Guadeloupe.If there are a lot of crocodiles and lizards?(Answer in the margins) No crocodiles, a few lizards.If the first are dangerous and if they leave the waters to come ashore to find their food? If we sell lizards publicly to eat them and make stews or in what other ways do we prepare them?
(Answer in the margin)
We rarely sell them, there are few large ones that can be eaten, but there
are large quantities of small ones called anolis of which houses are full even though cats destroy them. We prepare them like chickens, in fricassee.
If green and dry cod are brought to Martinique and where does it come from? (Answer in the margins)
Some green comes from Canada and around 2000 quintals per year of dry cod which is not enough for a quarter of what would be consumed.
If other kinds of salted fish are brought there, what are they and where do they come from?
(Answer in the margins)
We sometimes bring thazard,vieille and other fish from Cape Verde.
If we sometimes find ambergris on the coast and in what season and after what time?
(Answer in the margins)
None. If calves or sea wolves, oxen or sea cows are seen and their uses and if they are there in large
numbers?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sea lions are seen and which are of the same species
and in this case, give a description?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sometimes whales appear on the coast and if you catch them?
(Answer in the margins)
Sometimes mulardes or blowers but rarely and we take none.
If sea bears are seen there and if merman
(tritons) or mermaids (sir?nes) were caught a few times?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If porpoises are sometimes or often caught there and what color are they?
(Answer in the margins)
We often see them but we very rarely take them. They are like those
in Europe.
If there are a large number of shellfish on the coast and what species?
(Answer
in the margins)
Same as in Guadeloupe.

If we also bring turtle flesh and where does this kind of cured meat come from?(Answerin the margins) Sometimes, they come from Cape Verde and Tabac (Tobago?) but rarely.What fish species do we see in Martinique for which there is fishing of some importancefor the food of the inhabitants? Make a list of the names of all the fish such as thazard, sardes, beaumes, dorades, etc. and mark those which are most common and in greatest number.(Answer in the margins) The same as in Guadeloupe.If there are a lot of crocodiles and lizards?(Answer in the margins) No crocodiles, a few lizards.If the first are dangerous and if they leave the waters to come ashore to find their food? If we sell lizards publicly to eat them and make stews or in what other ways do we prepare them?
(Answer in the margin)
We rarely sell them, there are few large ones that can be eaten, but there
are large quantities of small ones called anolis of which houses are full even though cats destroy them. We prepare them like chickens, in fricassee.
If green and dry cod are brought to Martinique and where does it come from? (Answer in the margins)
Some green comes from Canada and around 2000 quintals per year of dry cod which is not enough for a quarter of what would be consumed.
If other kinds of salted fish are brought there, what are they and where do they come from?
(Answer in the margins)
We sometimes bring thazard,vieille and other fish from Cape Verde.
If we sometimes find ambergris on the coast and in what season and after what time?
(Answer in the margins)
None. If calves or sea wolves, oxen or sea cows are seen and their uses and if they are there in large
numbers?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sea lions are seen and which are of the same species
and in this case, give a description?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sometimes whales appear on the coast and if you catch them?
(Answer in the margins)
Sometimes mulardes or blowers but rarely and we take none.
If sea bears are seen there and if merman
(tritons) or mermaids (sir?nes) were caught a few times?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If porpoises are sometimes or often caught there and what color are they?
(Answer in the margins)
We often see them but we very rarely take them. They are like those
in Europe.
If there are a large number of shellfish on the coast and what species?
(Answer
in the margins)
Same as in Guadeloupe.

If we also bring turtle flesh and where does this kind of cured meat come from?(Answerin the margins) Sometimes, they come from Cape Verde and Tabac (Tobago?) but rarely.What fish species do we see in Martinique for which there is fishing of some importancefor the food of the inhabitants? Make a list of the names of all the fish such as thazard, sardes, beaumes, dorades, etc. and mark those which are most common and in greatest number.(Answer in the margins) The same as in Guadeloupe.If there are a lot of crocodiles and lizards?(Answer in the margins) No crocodiles, a few lizards.If the first are dangerous and if they leave the waters to come ashore to find their food? If we sell lizards publicly to eat them and make stews or in what other ways do we prepare them?
(Answer in the margin)
We rarely sell them, there are few large ones that can be eaten, but there
are large quantities of small ones called anolis of which houses are full even though cats destroy them. We prepare them like chickens, in fricassee.
If green and dry cod are brought to Martinique and where does it come from? (Answer in the margins)
Some green comes from Canada and around 2000 quintals per year of dry cod which is not enough for a quarter of what would be consumed.
If other kinds of salted fish are brought there, what are they and where do they come from?
(Answer in the margins)
We sometimes bring thazard,vieille and other fish from Cape Verde.
If we sometimes find ambergris on the coast and in what season and after what time?
(Answer in the margins)
None. If calves or sea wolves, oxen or sea cows are seen and their uses and if they are there in large
numbers?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sea lions are seen and which are of the same species
and in this case, give a description?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If sometimes whales appear on the coast and if you catch them?
(Answer in the margins)
Sometimes mulardes or blowers but rarely and we take none.
If sea bears are seen there and if merman
(tritons) or mermaids (sir?nes) were caught a few times?
(Answer
in the margins)
None.
If porpoises are sometimes or often caught there and what color are they?
(Answer in the margins)
We often see them but we very rarely take them. They are like those
in Europe.
If there are a large number of shellfish on the coast and what species?
(Answer
in the margins)
Same as in Guadeloupe.

If there are also mussels and oysters of what species and if there are mother-of-pearls? (Answer in the margins) Same as in Guadeloupe. There are land turtles and what if they are very big? (Answer in the margins). It is already mentioned above. If there are a lot of land crabs and soldiers and, in what season of the year do they come to lay their eggs on the coast and when do they change their shells?(Answer in the margins) Very large quantity of crabs. It's a boon for the country. There are many soldiers in Saint Lucia where they make oil, just like in Guadeloupe for changing shells.A state of the most ordinary seabirds around the island? (Answer in the margins) Same as in Guadeloupe so as not to make unnecessary answers.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? The people who will be responsible for responding to this memorandum are asked to fill in what might have been omitted in the questions and requests that have just been made on this matter, to do so as accurately as possible. With knowledge, it will be possible for them. And if they know some interesting particularities about fisheries and its trade, they will ask the public to share with them as well as their knowledge on this subject, using only certain, reliable, and proven facts in a general history of fisheries on which we have been working for several years. (Answer in the margins) Responded to Fort Royal by us intendant of the Windward Islands on October 8, 1722. Signed Benard.

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. There are also sharks, devils (diables) or slippers (pantoufles) made for the body like the two pieces, but the beast is different in that it has at the end a piece of cartilage a foot long and sometimes more depending on the size of this fish. These three species of fish are worthless to eat. Their liver is only good for making combustible oil and their skin is like a big hide

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. There are also sharks, devils (diables) or slippers (pantoufles) made for the body like the two pieces, but the beast is different in that it has at the end a piece of cartilage a foot long and sometimes more depending on the size of this fish. These three species of fish are worthless to eat. Their liver is only good for making combustible oil and their skin is like a big hide

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. There are also sharks, devils (diables) or slippers (pantoufles) made for the body like the two pieces, but the beast is different in that it has at the end a piece of cartilage a foot long and sometimes more depending on the size of this fish. These three species of fish are worthless to eat. Their liver is only good for making combustible oil and their skin is like a big hide

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. There are also sharks, devils (diables) or slippers (pantoufles) made for the body like the two pieces, but the beast is different in that it has at the end a piece of cartilage a foot long and sometimes more depending on the size of this fish. These three species of fish are worthless to eat. Their liver is only good for making combustible oil and their skin is like a big hide

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. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles

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. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles

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. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles

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. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles

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. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles

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. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles

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. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles

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. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles