2011-04-05

Chesapeake Bay Quotes - Fish Aboundance


 

The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography (Adventure Classics)
"A few Bevers, Otters, Beares, Martins and minkes we found, and in divers places that aboundance of fish, lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of nets (our barge driving amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with: neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for smal fish, had any of us ever seene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be caught with frying pans."

Captain John Smith, 1608

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