256 FISHING GOSSIP. 
broad. A certain Indian king kept and fed one of themi 
with bread twenty-six years in a lake near his house, 
which grew tame beyond all that the ancients have 
written of dolphins. He would sometimes carry a 
few people on his back across the lake with ease. 
There is the head of one in Gresham College.” 
“Tn the Mauritius there is a fish called Man-atee, 
which useth both elements ; its fins serve for stilts at 
land as they do for oars at sea. It delights at be- 
holding a man’s face, and is valuable for a stone found 
in the head, which being pounded and drank in wine, 
fasting, cures the cholick.” 
Apropos of dolphins, we light once more upon our 
friend Harris. Appion tells us that “he was an 
eyewitness, besides many more that flocked from 
afar off to see, of a dolphin which a boy on his way to 
school on the Lake Lucrin used to feed, and in return 
for this kindness, the dolphin would éarry the boy 
across on its back over the bay from Bara to Puzzoli.” 
But we have not done with Harris ; he is evidently 
strong upon dolphins. “Sir Thomas Herbert tells 
him, Harris, that they much affect the company of 
men, and are nourished like men; they are always 
constant to their mates, so tenderly affected to their 
parents that when they are 300 years old, they feed 
and defend them against hungry fishes; and when 
they die, carry them ashore and bury them.” 
“In China,” says Thevenot, “there is a fish that 
