The lagoon swarmed with fish; but though very beautiful in appearance, our difficulty was to catch them.  We could manage to make some coarse lines out of some rope-yarns which had been thrown into the boat with the canvas; we could cut rods from the younger trees which grew around; and there were plenty of projecting masses of rock on which we might sit and angle; but a very important portion of our gear was wanting--we had no fishing-hooks.