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The various fish caught over the side [[strikethrough]] crevalle[[/strikethrough]] mackerel  a dolphin jack, wahoo or barracuda always [[strikethrough]]seemed  [[/strikethrough]] turned the conversation to poisonous fish. There are many beliefs, superstitions or otherwise perhaps [[strikethrough]] well [[/strikethrough]] founded, but for this or that island the fish taken for the one side may [[strikethrough]] be eaten with impunity [[/strikethrough]] are harmless, but to eat the same species taken on the other side is dangerous.

I [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]]am particularly reminded of all this by the black crevalls we hook [[strikethrough]] between [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] on [[strikethrough]] our boat [[/strikethrough]] return from Barbuda. 

Kennet said on our way to Barbuda the black crevall is always poisonous unless [[strikethrough]] you remove [[/strikethrough]] one cuts the "tiblets" from out of the flesh. Sure enough he was able to demonstrated them small cylindrical half inch long ^[[light lemon yellow cysts]] cysts [[strikethrough]] about the skull and in the musculature of the back. Those about the skull [[/strikethrough]]