706 INDEX. 



PIKE FISHING continued. 



Old-fashioned theories, 482 



General tackle, 483 



Baiting, 484 



Floats and baits, 485 



Snap tackle, 486 



Paternostering, 487 



Striking, 488, 489 

 Pilot-fish, 27 

 Pilchard, 69 



Pisces, "Zodiacal," 22, 42, 48-51 ; "Regales," 45-47 

 Piscatorial franchise, rights, &c. See Privileges. 



Society, the, 172 

 Pisciculture, special list of works on, 685 

 Plaice, 55 



Pliny's monster polypus, 355 

 Poaching, 104, in 

 Poisonous fish (sacred), 36 



Polynesian folk-lore, legends, &c., 6, 15, 18, 31, 32, 39, 80, 82 

 Pompilus, 27 

 Pontoppidan, Eric, a conscientious investigator, 327 



,, correctly identifies the kraken as a cephalopod, 332 



,, on mermaids, 210, 211, 213 



sea serpent, 386 



Pope Innocent III., prohibits the eating of fish in Lent, 288 



,, Pius II., in search of the goose-tree, 291 

 " Porcupine," H.M.S., dredging by, 438 

 Porpoise, 20, 46, 89 



Porpoises swimming look like serpent, 388, 390 

 Power, Madame J., experiments on paper nautilus, 270 

 Prawn, 92 



Precious stones from fish, 51, 52 

 Preserves, 108 



Primitive fish-beliefs, chap, i.-iii. Fishes of Fancy, 80-83 

 Privileges of fishery, royal, 46, 47 



feudal, 46, 47, 67, 70 



ecclesiastical, 33 



,, ,, ,, municipal, 68 

 Prophet's-fish, 35 

 Pudding, 42 



QUOTATIONS FROM THE POETS : 

 Armstrong (John), 663 

 Browne (Moses), 662 

 Browne (William), 645 

 Bunyan, 653 

 Burns, 537 

 Chaucer, 650 



