75/121 The Aborigines generally select a rock which jutts out into the sea, and sitting on their hams, beat crabs into fragments with a little stone, and throw them into the sea to attract this fish. The instant a fish comes to feed on the bait, the native, whose spear is ready, suddenly darts it, and rarely fails in bringing up the fish on its barbed point. Specimen caught by the hook, 15th of June, 1841. 44 .-- KURTUS ?--Native name, TELYUA, or TELLYA, "Rays, D.13; A.2-19; V.5." Thrown up on Albany beach, 14th of August, 1841. |