1 2 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



The same writer describes trie art of angling 

 as practised in the river Astraeus in Macedonia, 

 by which a speckled fish was caught by a fly 

 made in imitation of the hippurus, a certain 

 buzzing, wasp-like insect, of which these fish 

 were fond. Arrian, in his history of India, 

 tells of a nation of ichthyophagi residing on 

 the Persian Gulf, who not only lived entirely 

 on fish themselves, but even fed their cattle 

 upon it. Their dress was made of fish skins, 

 and their huts were supported by beams and 

 rafters, made from the skeletons of the levia- 

 thans of the deep. This wretched people 

 occupied a tract of country devoid of vegeta- 

 tion, and, being entirely dependent upon the 

 fish they could manage to catch, were in a 

 constant state of hunger and misery. 



Fishing has been practised from a remote 

 period for the food supply obtained by it, and 

 as the calling of a class of the population ; but 

 angling for the love of the sport was the result 

 of civilization, and, as Badham says, " was an 

 after-thought not likely to occur till the world 

 was well peopled, and different states suffi- 

 ciently prosperous and advanced in civilization 

 to spare supernumerary hands, and allow the 



