440 Dr. E. P. Wright on the Transportation of Living = ish. 
my guest for the day, I returned once more to s} ore. It 
was about 10 o’clock in the evening when I again got on 
board, and in the meanwhile two of my fishes had died. I 
placed the rest in a water-jug; and though they were in rather 
a sickly condition, they soon revived; one, however, jumped 
out of the jug unnoticed, and thus lost his life; the remaining 
six lived on, in apparently the best of health, until I reached 
Suez. The fresh water in the Seychelles is very full of iron ; 
the water on board the ‘ Erymanthe,’ from being kept in iron 
tanks, was also impregnated with the same metal; and I was 
in the habit of pouring out a quantity of the water each morn- 
ing, and filling the jug up again with fresh water let fall from 
some distance, so a3 to adrate it as much as possible. Every 
fly caught on board was given to the fishes ; and I took advan- 
tage of my few hours sojourn at Aden to lay in a small store of 
insects, with which to regale them while in the Red Sea. At 
Suez I was detained for some time by the custom-house officers, 
but at last succeeded in getting the fish, birds, and leopard 
(it went by the name of a cat) into a railway carriage other- 
wise unoccupied. Just as the train was about to start, the 
officials came to take the leopard from me; but by this time I 
had let her loose in the carriage, and when she saw their dark 
faces (she never had at best a fancy for blacks), she jumped 
up to get at them in a manner that so alarmed them that they 
at once ran away and left us alone. After a few hours railway 
travelling, I found the fish beginning to gasp for air; the 
motion of a railway carriage so churns the water, that it soon 
becomes unbreathable. I, however, changed the water at 
Cairo, and brought them alive to Alexandria: here I placed 
them for a couple of days in a glass vase of Nile-canal water ; 
but, whether from its coldness or from its beimg so full of 
mud I know not, in one night two died. I then got some 
rain-water, placed a piece of iron in it, and left it in the 
kitchen of my friend’s house, and the others seemed to be all 
right. From Alexandria to Marseilles we had a very cold and 
stormy passage ; but still I landed at Marseilles with my fourfish 
alive ; they went with me to, and spent a whole day and night at 
Hydres, and they then commenced what was to them a journey 
of death towards Paris. The jolting of the express train was 
very great, and ere we reached Lyons two had died: here I 
changed the water, and had still hopes of brmging the remain- 
ing two to London. ‘To avoid the shaking as much as possi- 
ble, I had suspended the bottle from the ceiling of the coupé ; 
but at Dijon a lot of people got into it, and I was obliged to 
bundle up all my possessions into a small corner on the floor ; 
and so it happened that when daylight dawned, and we stopped 
