426 Fisuing is AmMEerIcAN WATERS. 
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Scale of Feet. 
1. Common Swordfish, Xiphias gladius. 2. Indian Swordfish, Wistiophorus Indicus. 
3. Common Tunny, Thinnis vulgar 4. Dolphin of the Ancients, Corypheena hip- 
puris. 5. Scabbard-tish, Lepidopus argyreus. 6. Wolf-tish (a fighting character, be- 
longing to the family of the Gobies), Anarrhichus lupus. 7. Fishing Frog, Lophius 
piscatorius. 
during its entire voyage of eighty days from Alexandria, in 
the Mediterranean, to Plymouth. 
It is a current opinion among sailors that this fish acts a 
pilot’s part to the shark, and accompanies and befriends it as 
Tue Pivot-risu.—Naucrates ductor. 
opportunity offers; and certainly there is a great amount of 
evidence which goes to show that there is something very 
much like a confiding famiharity between these two compan- 
ions of the weary mariner. Numerous well-authenticated 
