MEDITERRANEAN REMORA. 



,and found one of these fishes sticking fast to the 

 very helme : which being reported unto Cains 

 Caligula, he fumed and fared as an Emperour, 

 taking great indignation that so small a thing 

 as it, should hold him back perforce, and check 

 the strength of all his mariners, notwithstanding 

 there were no fewer than foure hundred lustie 

 men in his galley that laboured at the ore all 

 that ever they could to the contrarie. But this 

 prince (as it is for certain knowne) was most 

 astonied at this, namely, that the fish sticking 

 only to the ship, should hold it fast ; and the 

 same being brought into the ship and there laid, 

 not worke the like effect. They who at that 

 time and afterward saw the fish, report that it 

 resembled for all the world a snaile of the greatest 

 making : but as touching the form and sundrie 

 kinds thereof, many have written diver sly, whose 

 opinions I have set downe in my treatise of living 

 creatures belonging to the waters, and namely in 

 the particular discourse of this fish : neither doe 

 I doubt but all the sorte of fishes are able to doe 

 as much : for this we are to beleeve, that Pour- 

 cellans also be of the same vertue, since it was 

 well knowne by a notorious example, that one 

 of them did the like by a ship sent from Periander 

 to the cape of Gnidos : in regard whereof, the 

 inhabitants of Gnidos doe honour and consecrat 

 the said Porcellane within their temples of Venus. 

 Some of our Latin writers do call the said fish 

 that thus staieth a ship, by the name of Re- 



mora." 



