CHAPTER V 

 OCEAN FISH AND OCEAN FISHING (continued) 



DOLPHINS. The traditional idea of these fish, as 

 shown in almost every sea-picture or piece of 

 sculpture from the earliest times, is a marine 

 creature with arched back and upturned nose, 

 spouting water like a whale, but from two orifices 

 at the top of its head. Neptune and the Tritons 

 are always depicted with these lively attendants 

 (sometimes harnessed to their sea-chariots), and 

 I suppose ninety-nine out of every hundred 

 persons on a first voyage would even now expect 

 to see some such fish and anticipate its changing 

 into all the colours of the rainbow when dying. 



These fish, known to sailors as dolphins, to 

 foreigners as dorados, are true fish with vertical 

 tails ; but the real dolphin is a cetacean common 

 in the Mediterranean. 



Dolphins or dorados, as the Spaniards call 

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