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 Nilumbiwm 
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 ton- 
duced to lessen its reputation in that respect. In 
1836, the late Mr. Yarrell exhibited, at a meeting of 
