162 FISHING GOSSIP. 



Prophet being carried on a pole before them, by an 

 officer seated on an elephant. 



The Order originated with the Mogul Dynasty in 

 India, having been founded by Zenghis Khan, the 

 conqueror of Asia, in the year 1206. One Englishman 

 has received this decoration. In 1803, when the late 

 General Lake visited Delhi, immediately after his 

 brilliant successes in the Mahratta war, Shah Aulum 

 conferred this honour upon him. Subsequently the 

 General was created Lord Lake by George the Third, 

 and a few years later was advanced to the title of 

 Viscount Lake of Delhi, with an augmentation to his 

 paternal arms, indicative of his Asiatic honours, de- 

 scribed by the heralds as " the Fish of Mogul sur- 

 mounting the Goog and Ullum." 



The Hindoos, too, commemorate the mythical 

 connection of their religion with the Rohita or carp 

 by a curious device frequently found in the sculptures 

 and, paintings of their temples. It represents three 

 carps, forming a tri-corporated fish under one head, 

 while between each are depicted stems and flowers 

 of the sacred Indian plant, the Lotus the Nilurribium 

 speciosum of botanists. 



The county of Surrey was, in the olden time, 

 famed for producing the largest carp found in our 

 English waters, and modern experience has not con- 

 duced to lessen its reputation in that respect. In 

 1836, the late Mr. Yarrell exhibited, at a meeting of 



