I looked: nothing could be more certain. But supposing it might be a solitary case, we baited afresh, and threw out our line. Surely this ocean is well peopled with fish, for in another couple of hours we took a large quantity of

Pterichthyodes

, as well as of others belonging to the extinct family of the dipterids, but of which my uncle could not tell the species; none had organs of sight. This unhoped-for catch recruited our stock of provisions.