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a mackeral like fish, and before the little barracuda a large one said to be non-poisonous.  This poison-fish business is queer on east side of island only poisonous fish, on west side all caught are safe to eat.  The crevally above Kennet the cook said it would be [[strikethrough]] good [[/strikethrough]] (safe) to eat after he cut out the "tublets", - and sure enough he did disect out several cylindrical cyst like objects between eyes & just above & back of skull, others of same kind were in flesh (muscles) along side of body cavity but in no bony cavities, above eyes (alongside & inside & above eyes) were packed with these light lemon yellow cylindrical ––.  Seemed of greater length in this cavity than those in body (2 diff. things?);  have saved all he found in alcohol for identification.  Are extraneous matter in fish flesh and so repulsive. - No one knowningly would want to eat them, but as to being poisonous in fact remains to be seen could it be that parasitic infections of certain kinds, and or in certain fish, give poison reactions when eaten by people.  How can one quickly determine whether fish will be poisonous to humans;  is there some antigen against which to [[?]] their [[?protion]]