160 FISHING GOSSIP. 
Though changed his form, his avarice remains, 
And in his breast the love of lucre reigns, 
For Saturn, flying from victorious Jove, 
Compelled of old in banishment to rove 
Along th’ Italian shore, a vessel found 
Beyond the lake of wide Benachus bound. 
He for his passage at a price agreed, 
And with large gifts of gold the master fee’d ; 
But he, the master, Carpus was he named, 
With thirst of gain and love of gold inflamed, © 
Prepared in chains the passenger to bind. 
But to the God his face betrayed his mind, 
And from the vessel, in revenge, he threw, 
Into the waves the pilot and his crew; 
Then into fish the traitors he transformed ; 
The traitors, still with love of lucre warmed, 
The sailing ships for golden fragments trace, 
And prove themselves derived from human race.” 
Taking into consideration the difficulty of catching 
a carp by ordinary means, this avariciously-inclined 
fish may be an emblem of the typical golden hook, 
with which the followers of the gentle art are not 
unfrequently taunted. , 
A fish, nearly allied to, if not perfectly identical 
with, our English carp, is found in several Indian 
rivers, where it is called Rohita,a name given by 
Cuvier as a generic appellation to several of the 
Indian Cyprinids. This fish has a sort of semi-sacred 
character, among both the Hindoo and Mussulman 
population of the East. In the Hindoo mythology, 
