LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FIG. PAGE 



A MERMAID. From a picture by Otto Sinding . . .178 



1. NOAH, His WIFE AND THREE SONS, AS FISH-TAILED DEITIES. 



From a gem in the Florentine Gallery. After Calmet . 1 86 



2. HEA, OR NOAH, THE GOD OF THE FLOOD. Khorsabad . . 187 



3. DAGON. From a bas-relief. Nimroud . . . . .191 



4. DAGON : HALF MAN, HALF FISH. From Lamy's ' Apparatus 



Biblicus* 192 



5. DAGON. From an agate signet. Nineveh . . ... . 192 



6. FISH AVATAR OF VISHNU. After Calmet and Maurice . . 193 



7. NOAH AND HIS WIFE AS FISH-TAILED DEITIES .... 194 



8. ATERGATIS, THE GODDESS OF THE SYRIANS. From a Phoenician 



Coin 195 



9. VENUS RISING FROM THE SEA, SUPPORTED BY TRITONS. 



After Calmet 196 



10. VENUS DRAWN IN HER CHARIOT BY TRITONS. From two 



Corinthian Coins . . . . . . . 197 



11. DITTO 197 



12. SEAL, DRAWN AS A FISH. From the Catacombs at Rome . . 198 



13. MERMAID AND FISHES OF AMBOYNA. After Valentyn . . 200 



14. A JAPANESE ARTIFICIAL MERMAID . . . . .216 



15. AN ARTIFICIAL MERMAID. Probably Japanese .... 216 



16. PORTRAIT OF A MERMAID SAID TO HAVE BEEN CAPTURED IN 



JAPAN . .217 



17. THE DUGONG. From Sir J. Emerson Tennenfs ' Ceylon ' . .231 



18. THE MANATEE .233 



19. FIGURE OF A CALAMARY, FROM THE TEMPLE OF BAYR-EL- 



BAHREE .238 



20. FIGURE OF AN OCTOPUS ON A GOLD ORNAMENT FOUND BY 



DR. SCHLIEMANN AT MYCEN/E . . . . 239 



21. DITTO. ...... 2 4 



22. DITTO. . . . . . ' 2 4 J 



23. DITTO. ... 2 4i 



