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Show FISHERMEN BATTLE WITH A DEVIL FISH. NEW CHILEANS PARTY HA8 EX-CITING EX-CITING ADVENTURE. SHOTS AROUSE THE GIANT N It, Followed Sluggishly by jre, and Eullets Flrsd Make Little ImnreBslon on the Monster. New Orleans. The sensation In the fishing world recently was tho expo-ilence expo-ilence four sportsmen had with a devil llsh o.V I lorn Island. During .the week the big power yacht Jealine, owned by Commodore Thomas Sully, with John P. Hulllvan. Phil Worleln and Ned Itlghlor ns guostB, ran out to Morn Island for a few days' fishing. They had all the sport they wnntcd with mnckoiel ami bull redllidi. and early one Hundny morning Htnrtul for the eastward puss of Deer iHland and Hlloxl bay. They had traselcd possibly tluvo or four miles from the Island when. Just ahead of the yacht they saw something some-thing on the surface of tho sound which looked like a giant turtle. Tho course of the yacht was changed so ns to oveihnul this strange creature, and when the boat nenred the fish tho engines were slowed down and stopped. The yacht camo up close to tho llsh, which proved to ho tho Inrgcst devil fish over seen In that section, Hur lug last Bummer u number of theso monsters, sometimes called the blanket fish, havo been seen, hut they wore not longer thnn five or six feet. This monster measured In the neighborhood of tf feet In length, nnd was fully seven or eight feet broad. When tho nose of tho llsh was alongstdo tho step of tho yacht, Its 'tall waB Just opposite -the foremast, a distance of over 1C feet, hut, to make the measurement reasonable, .the sportsmen camo to tho conclusion conclu-sion that they would give tho fish lf feet ns a fair measurement. j Commodore Sully secured an Improved Im-proved Winchester and went on top of the pilot house to get a good shot. Tho flah wns lying very near the surface, and did not seem to pay tho slightest attention to the boat and Its occupants. Two shots wero tired In rupld succession, hut they did not seem to bother tho fish In tht least When the shots wore fired tht giant sank slowly nnd came up ngulr a few feet furthor nhcad. A dozen moro shots wore llrcd from tho rifle, hut no Impression wns mndc. Kully half an hour the yacht lay to whllo Its occupants tried nil kinds of means to wake up the monster of the Bea. Worleln finally grabbed n long boat-hook boat-hook and wanted to tie a lino to tho Ml ml m imiUjJ iis Hmnwi The Shots Had No Effect on the Fish. handle and hnrpoon the fish, but tho others wero not oxnetly certain as to tho results of such an experiment, nnd would not listen to Werleln. Finally tho yacht got under wny again, and the dovll fish, with a fow lazy waves of Its giant tentacles, dropped In behind nnd followed the boat for fully half a mile. Then It disappeared. disap-peared. A few weeks ago W. C. C. Claiborne and several othor fishermen returned with a story about three dovll fish scon nt tho Island, but their story was taken with a largo grain of salt. Clnlhorno has a ropututlon for story telling, hut his tale Is followed up now by this experience, and tho Bportsmcn nro wondorlug If a big yacht, with plenty of harpoons on board might not furnish n lot of lively aport to tho sportsmen. |