The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-07

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light you'll see black head a-lookin
'round. Up she comes, a little at q
time, but afore sheleaves the Water she
makes sure there ain't no one around
then goes for the beach, crawls right
up close to the bush where the water
never reaches and where durin' the day
It's almost red hot. Then she picks
out u place and commences to dig with
her hind feet, until "a hole about three
feet deep is dug, aEtl into this the eggs
are dropped-somffimes a hundred,
more or less. WlMH she's done, she
covers it up, and, ilsstfad of goin' right
back-and there yonss Zee the cunnin' O
the brutes-she cras5s ;tlong the edge
OF the bush a ways i'll then strikes foi
the water, perhaps{ S1ga ~ A.,t red feet
from where she c9fsse y. 81 s.:ltp $50 MI W
know WhenEye tlnlaGIacKs Is tDat the
nest is somewhere RetWeen 'em, and q
green hand is like t4amake still hunt
Tor 1t.
sometimes as many as a dozen are
turned III night. and sometimes nary
one. Ihey like bright moonlight nights
though. The next morning we git 'em
INTO the dlngy ana then rig block and
tackle and git .em aboard the smack
ana run for Key West. Most shippers
that make any business OF turtlin' have
crawls on the flats on the northwest
SIDE OF the Key. Crawls? Wall, crawls's
a pace where turtles can't crawl out
Nothln' but fenced in place in four OF
lVe 1eet OF water, and into this all the
turtles IS put TO be Kept till called for,
as Capt. Kldd SAID when he buried the
pot O. gold. On these crawls, or those
OF the Conchs, we call when we work
up along. The turtles are taken out
with water, and live for any time.
''What are the Conchs3 Wall. thev,re
a part Of the population of Kew West,
livin' in part called ConchtoWn' and
supposed to live on conchs. But I
never see one eat one, and T reckoh
nothin' but groupers would tackle 'em.
The Conchs have curious way Of
catchin' turtles with peg. Spearin'
We might call it, but the spear is a Deg.
lookin' jest like about two inches off
the end of a three-sided file. That ere
is made fast to a long grouper line
about as big as our cod line, and made
to fit into long pole. With this rig
they scull over the reef with a dingy,
and when they see turtle asleep on
the bottom Oh lying on top, they let
him have it. You'd think such a plug
would pull out, but it don't; suction
keeps it in, and big loggerliead will
pull a boat a couple o. miles afore they
git it alongside. Then, agin, it don't
hurt the critter; only sticks in the shell,
and can be worked right out, which a
barbed spear couldn't.
''There's another turtle they git on
the reef-the hawksllill they're fine
eatin', but tho shell is tho no rst ..el.,e-
1,e, H, nelli llia,ie .llto COMBS ana the IKE.
~ ~ u GLG ooaC,l AlleI!ca coasC tney- take
..;.t o,ta slieil oit Wy loaSCll ailu letGm. the
oiiU.oi ~ W sloW a,loSileI; Diu ye
t, oEel SEQ uailapas turIle NO. wan,
tiOa t1leies e y u et eeitapii iol you. hana tur-
E".,H tioS nTud heoI ioiis anu CiiLee leeC nlgh
:au :hst' - Io'o aiols 'iitIl or IIlee OIL EN-
?uSy iu 3iHe 70, Nolsc; iailueu OIL tne
asisslIu S III ~ anu nI pIougiC away liait
uoAoii ' VI eiii. ne whole island IS
Iiarheu l,l wACn tllelr tracks leaom, from
ti tiio Ma.ei HS;a up inIo .iie cones. Ihey re
t,io plssSsC lallu Cureles a-n'h', put
Cne!e aiil'C ilMGh l eau lor 'em except Tor
cur GuiiosiCiGs. me DlggesC sea turtle TO-
"ay 10 ,'lc heaIlier turtle, sometimes
Na1 moisiia, SMo Ii'oss''ha poulGs. Inc
paIh 10 81, iliaue up 0l one PIECE, hitVln' no
scales S IKE .he others. Ihey are pretty
l',,o 1ale, De,'i u III, louai9 % Sniy OUT TO sea.
san nneieS ~ a. ole % oiao Ill Now LONDON tney
sty st ito ~ ~ Emi,ti @ B'Ho ~ leu eyes ana
sCuineo ~ ali out VI slittpe' ana SHOWS IL
ovgry o, c yeal as Ine GreaV sea monster,
all,s ,'n,s az acCually eol'I Aho" himselt "'iat
i'orS ms s,ioMii,, Gn1,o,,,,.,,, .,,.,,o ,,..,
!, ny oaiiap!sos CulUle lnenclohed ny
Sile shiPPol ~ from glganClc STOCK.
VatiOnS in lower India, when they came
1aaot cuoh tbo ,,ot;,,oo oon,;1o,ol - ~