This is fine sport. Keeping within a few rods of the shore, where
the water is not more than three or four feet deep, with a clear sandy
bottom, the torches light everything up so that one could almost
have seen a pin among the grains of sand. The craw-fish are an easy
prey, and we used soon to get a load of them. The other fish were more
difficult to catch, yet we frequently speared a number of them, of
various kinds and sizes. The Pilgrim brought us down a supply of
fish-hooks, which we had never had before, on the beach, and for
several days we went down to the Point, and caught a quantity of cod
and mackerel. On one of these expeditions, we saw a battle between two
Sandwich Islanders and a shark. "Johnny" had been playing about our
boat for some time, driving away the fish, and showing his teeth at
our bait, when we missed him, and in a few moments heard a great
shouting between two Kanakas who were fishing on the rock opposite
to us: "E hana hana make i ka ia nui!" "E pii mai Aikane!" etc., etc.;
and saw them pulling away on a stout line, and "Johnny Shark"
floundering at the other end.
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