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Trichechus inunguis - "Manatee" - [FR: Lamentin]

ID: 259 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Lamentin
Vernacular Name: Manatee
Scientific Name: Trichechus inunguis
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Catch & Quantity
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Chelonioidea - "Sea Turtle" - [FR: Tortue de Mer]

ID: 260 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue de Mer
Vernacular Name: Sea Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Fishing
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Chelonioidea - "Sea Turtle" - [FR: Tortue de Mer]

ID: 261 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue de Mer
Vernacular Name: Sea Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Fishing Techniques & Equipment
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
We work in shifts at night, turning them over.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Chelonioidea - "Sea Turtle" - [FR: Tortue de Mer]

ID: 262 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue de Mer
Vernacular Name: Sea Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Catch & Quantity
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Chelonioidea - "Sea Turtle" - [FR: Tortue de Mer]

ID: 263 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue de Mer
Vernacular Name: Sea Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The Logger head sea turtle is a larger turtle used to make oil. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Caretta caretta - "Loggerhead Turtle" - [FR: Tortue caouanne]

ID: 264 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue caouanne
Vernacular Name: Loggerhead Turtle
Scientific Name: Caretta caretta
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The [inhabitants] eat it.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Chelonioidea - "Turtle" - [FR: Tortue de Mer]

ID: 265 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue de Mer
Vernacular Name: Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Chelonioidea - "Turtle" - [FR: Tortue de Mer]

ID: 266 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue de Mer
Vernacular Name: Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Chelonioidea - "Turtle" - [FR: Tortue de Mer]

ID: 267 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue de Mer
Vernacular Name: Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Cayenne, French Guina.
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The fat is used to make oil.
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line.
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Labrus - "Wrasse" - [FR: Vieille]

ID: 268 | ID2: 22
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Vieille
Vernacular Name: Wrasse
Scientific Name: Labrus
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Fishing Techniques & Equipment
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Noted presence labrus and line fishing technique
📖 Full Translated Text:
Cayenne, Fish found in the province of Guyana. The manatee has a woman's breast, a cow's snout and two fins which it uses to carry and nurse its young. It grazes on grass along rivers. It is an excellent fresh salted fish. It provides meat as tender as pork. One was caught in Cayenne that yielded eight hundred and sixty pounds of meat. It is very common in all large rivers. It is very healthy. Sieur Barr?re, a doctor, drew one. There are five or six species of turtles. Those of the Amazons are caught in fresh water. Their meat is white and their fat is yellow. It is the best. Some weigh forty to fifty pounds. Land turtles are round and long. Sea turtles are caught in the coves in March, April and May, when they go to lay their eggs. We work in shifts at night, turning them over. Two turtles usually make a barrel of two hundred pounds of meat. They purify the blood. The caouanne is a larger turtle used to make oil. The negroes eat it. It is roughly shaped like an imperial carriage. Sieur Barr?re has drawn one. All these turtles are very common. The carr? (caret) is rare. It is said to be common in the Devil's Islands, twelve or fifteen leagues from Cayenne. The labrus is a very good fish that is caught with a line [...]
Source: Cayenne-Guyane (2)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Pisces - "Fish"

ID: 269 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Vernacular Name: Fish
Scientific Name: Pisces
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Fishing Techniques & Equipment
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Seine and line fishing
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Gadus morhua - "Cod" - [FR: Morue]

ID: 270 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Morue
Vernacular Name: Cod
Scientific Name: Gadus morhua
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Catch & Quantity
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
There are some [cod] that weigh 700 pounds.
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Lobotidae? - "Tripletails" - [FR: Croupia]

ID: 271 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Croupia
Vernacular Name: Tripletails
Scientific Name: Lobotidae?
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The croupia is a very good fish [...] round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne.
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Lobotidae? - "Tripletails" - [FR: Croupia]

ID: 272 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Croupia
Vernacular Name: Tripletails
Scientific Name: Lobotidae?
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Fishing Techniques & Equipment
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Pisces - "Fish"

ID: 273 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Vernacular Name: Fish
Scientific Name: Pisces
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Croupier is "delicious" to eat
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Dicentrarchus labrax - "Sea Bass" - [FR: Loubine]

ID: 274 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Loubine
Vernacular Name: Sea Bass
Scientific Name: Dicentrarchus labrax
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common.
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Dicentrarchus labrax - "Sea Bass" - [FR: Loubine]

ID: 275 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Loubine
Vernacular Name: Sea Bass
Scientific Name: Dicentrarchus labrax
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Fishing Techniques & Equipment
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common.
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Dicentrarchus labrax - "Sea Bass" - [FR: Loubine]

ID: 276 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Loubine
Vernacular Name: Sea Bass
Scientific Name: Dicentrarchus labrax
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common.
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Mullus surmuletus - "Mullet" - [FR: Rouget]

ID: 277 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Rouget
Vernacular Name: Mullet
Scientific Name: Mullus surmuletus
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne.
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Mullus surmuletus - "Mullet" - [FR: Rouget]

ID: 278 | ID2: 23
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Rouget
Vernacular Name: Mullet
Scientific Name: Mullus surmuletus
Location: French Guiana
Region: North Atlantic
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1729
Data Type: Fishing Techniques & Equipment
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner.
📖 Full Translated Text:
a fishing net and a senne (net). There are some that weigh 700 pounds.This fish salts like cod but much better.The croupia is a very good fish which can weigh fifty pounds, round face and swims sideways. It is one of the best in Cayenne. Common, it is fished with an arrow and with a senne.The loubine is of two species. One is very good like the best pike whose face it has.The other tastes like a muse, can be fished as below, common. The mulet, like the abundant European one, is fished by arrow and senne. A few years ago, he had a catch of this pleasant fish, several small canoes with small nets on their canoes swam by force and head on. The mulet, to protect itself, jumped and fell in their nets. They took a lot of them in this manner. Parassir is what we call meuille in La Rochelle. It is very abundant and very good in their best season just as in France. It should be noted that all these fish are caught around a small forest that the Indians maintain. They block a creek with screens (boards). They pile the planks in the canoes and wall the creek up. They take a large quantity of fish of all species. Akoupa has flesh almost like that of whiting, with the shape of a pike. Some can be four feet long like loubines. The Apalika, much like the shad. The Moonfish, a very good passing fish, is fished with arrow and senne.The Big eyes stay on the shores of the sea. The Frog eyes. It is good, it can be fished with a torch, with a senne and the arrow. Very common. The karande looks like salmon, rare.There is a fish whose name I could not find out which is the best you can eat. It is flat and reddish with a round face, rare.The resi is of three species. One like that of France. One called a devil who has very long horns very dangerous when caught on the line. If the one whoever takes it doesn't take their line right away, it takes the canoe so fast that it is hard to get away with it. There were Negroes who were drowned by this fish. I saw some who could weigh up to seven hundred pounds. They are fished with folle net. Mr. Barrere drew it as well as lots of all these fish. The other species taken in fresh water is best, fished like I said. The sardine is like that of France but bad. The machoran is of two species, one yellow and the other white. The yellow one is very big, a big fish that can be caught with the arrow, on a line. Scaleless, both species are very abundant.The grunt (grondeux) is aptly named and is caught with aline. It?s a godsend resource for Cayenne. Pasanis, almost like machoran, better.
Source: ANF, 127AP3-9 Cayenne & Guyane (3)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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