Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1883 — Ink of the Devil Fish. [ARTICLE]

Ink of the Devil Fish.

A naturalist, who went to the West Indies to collect specimens for his cabinet, was drifting along the reef at Nassau, one day, and saw several squids just below the surface of the water. “I put out my hand," he said, “and in a second my dearest friend would not have known me. I was literally (blenched with ink, which was thrown a distance of at least three feet. The ink was indelible and still stains the linen that I then wore.” Squids are a species of cuttle-fish, having one bone in the body shaped precisely like a pen. This has a little bag on each side in which the ink is csivrieA.—ConfjregationaUst.