I employed my sons daily to collect this, till we had amassed a large quantity; using some, in the first place, effectually to cover our herring-barrels.

Four barrels were salted and covered in this way; the rest my wife smoked in a little hut of reeds and branches, in the midst of which the herrings were laid on sticks, and exposed to the smoke of a fire of green moss kindled below.

This dried them, and gave them the peculiar flavour so agreeable to many.
We were visited by another shoal of fish a month after that of the herrings.

Jack first discovered them at the mouth of Jackal River, where they had apparently come to deposit their eggs among the scattered stones.

They were so large, that he was sure they must be whales.