TCD MS 10516 folio 67 verso
[12th October 1916] on the surface in dense shoals, chasing the myriads of smaller fish, they form a remarkable spectacle. They cause an incessant crashing, heard almost half a mile distant and sounding like an audience clapping with applause. Fish of all sizes lash the water into foam; their fins, tails and writhing bodies appear above the surface while the air is full of the smaller fishes leaping or skimming the water in silvery streaks as they endeavour to escape. The water looks as if it were a solid layer of fish; I have never seen so many crowded into one area except in the sacred tanks of India where the numbers are so dense that there appears more fish than water. The Arabs find no difficulty in capturing them; they can do so by just blindly driving their spears into the water trusting to chance that they may strike a