198 THE POGGE. 



US imitate the philosophy of the negro mentioned by 

 Captain Crow. On the Guinea Coast people are 

 buried beneath their own huts, and the Land-crabs 

 are seen crawling in and out of holes in the floor with 

 revolting familiarity : notwithstanding which they are 

 caught and eaten with avidity. A negro, with whom 

 the worthy Captain remonstrated on the subject, 

 seemed to think this but a reasonable and just retalia- 

 tion, a sort of payment in kind ; replying with a grin 

 and chuckle of triumph : — " Crab eat black man ; 

 black man eat he !" 



THE POGGE. 



An " odd fish" rejoicing under the elegant cognomen 

 of Pogge among the vulgar, but known to the scientific 

 votaries of sesquipedalianism by the title of Aspido- 

 phorus cataphr actus* is occasionally found lurking 

 about the quays of Weymouth. Men and boys who 

 collect prawns and shrimps (the latter term used in 

 its popular, not its zoological sense) go round in 

 boats along the sides of the sea-walls, as well those 

 outside of the harbour forming the esplanade as 

 the commercial quays. These at low-water-Une are 

 clothed with a ragged olive fringe of Fuci, chiefly F. 

 serratus, which hang down in an almost uninterrupted 

 line of dense tufts, affording shelter to many small 

 animals. The fisherman is provided with a lamm, a 



* This little unconscious fish has as many aliases as a housebreaker, 

 to say nothing of his hang-gallows look. According to Mr. Yarrell's 

 list of synonymes, he is the Armed Bullhead, the Pogge, the Lyrie, the 

 Sea-poacher, the Pluck, the Noble ; while the admirers of Greek and 

 Latin may choose between Aspidophorus Europseus, Cottus cataphrac- 

 tus, Cataphraotus Sohoneveldii, and Aspidophorus cataphractus. 



