The _Palagamim_, or sea-bream, is of a shining colour like gold, but has a bad taste. The _Neymin_, or oil-fish, is from three to four palms in length, and has an excellent taste, but is somewhat difficult of digestion. The _Karimim_, or stone-fish, appears to me to be the European sea-bream. The _Ayla_, called in Portuguese _Cavala_, has a good taste when fresh; but, when salted, becomes like the herring. The Indian eel is very delicious; but too fat, and consequently difficult of digestion. The _Tirandi_, or roach, has an exceedingly good taste, though not nearly so large as the roaches sold at Rome. The _Anicannen_ and _Kòlen_ are both small fish of a bad quality. The tench, pike, and mackarel are also caught on the Malabar coast; but I do not find their names in Father Hanxleden’s dictionary. The _Ettamin_ is in all probability the red sea-bream.--Soles and flat fish are no where so good as at _Collam_ and _Angenga_. The tortoises, which inhabit the sea, as well as the rivers, are here of considerable size. I have seen some of them which weighed forty pounds. The people of Malabar, however, do not eat the tortoise; and if one of them enters a house, they consider it as a bad omen. The Xiphias, or sword-fish, is caught in great abundance in the Indian seas.--The barbel is found only in rivers which the water of the sea never enters. Crabs, called in the Malabar language _Gnanda_, and in the Samscred _Carchidaga_, are poisonous in October and November; for about that period the poisonous aquatic plants, such as the blue tithymal, or wolf’s milk, grow up; and as these animals feed upon them, they are rendered so poisonous as to occasion death to those who eat them. It would be therefore proper, that in Malabar, as is the case in the Isle of France, a law were made to prohibit crabs being caught during these two months. M. Passavant the Danish factor at Calicut, Father Louis Maria à Jesu, now a bishop, and myself, once happened to be in company, and to eat of these animals. The other two gentlemen each ate two of them; but I contented myself with one. Three hours after, M. Passavant became pale as death, and was seized with so violent a vomiting, that we absolutely thought he would have expired. Father Louis Maria was attacked with vertigo; all the veins in his body were swelled; his face, lips, and hands became blue, and he experienced an oppression at the heart which threatened to prove fatal. I immediately gave him some theriac, which the missionaries generally carry about with them, and sent for a barber to bleed him. In regard to myself I was seized with a giddiness and vomiting, the latter of which I endeavoured to provoke. This accident, and others of the like kind, which frequently happen in this country, ought to serve as a caution to those who travel through Malabar, not to eat crabs there during the summer months. The case is the same with some kinds of fish. At Cochin and the neighbouring districts the water