2i8 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



appear to take much heed of. But, when it comes to 

 lighting a fire upon it, and cooking thereon, it naturally 



wakes up the whale. It is of this " TeOfelwal " that 

 Milton writes (" Paradise Lost," Bk. i., 1. 200) : 



"Or that sea-beast 



Leviathan, which God of all His works 

 Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream. 

 Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, . 

 The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, 

 Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, 

 With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, 

 Moors by his side under the lee, while night 

 Invests the sea, and wished morn delays." 



And the same story is told in the First Voyage of 

 Sindbad the Sailor, or, as Mr. Lane, whose translation 

 (ed. 1883) I use, calls him, Es-Sindiba~d of the Sea: 

 "We continued our voyage until we arrived at an island 

 like one of the gardens of Paradise, and at that island, 

 the master of the ship brought her to anchor with us. 

 He cast the anchor, and put forth the landing plank, 

 and all who were in the ship landed upon that island. 

 They had prepared for themselves fire-pots, and they 

 lighted the fires in them, and their occupations were 

 various : some cooked, others washed, and others amused 



