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was his acidulous comment `` I 've caught the same fish in New Zealand in broad daylight . '' I shook my head , knowing that he was wrong . He became angry , and remarked that he had found that all white men who had lived in foreign countries for a few years accepted the rubbishy dictum of natives regarding sporting matters of any kind as infallible . Refusing to show me the tackle he intended using , at two o'clock he hired a native canoe , and paddled off alone into Apia Harbour . Then he began to fish for _ La ` heu _ , using a mullet as bait . In five minutes he was fast to a good-sized and lusty shark , which promptly upset the canoe , went off with the line and left him to swim . The officer of the deck of the French gunboat _ Vaudreuil _ , then lying in the port , sent a boat and picked him up .