186 FISH CULTUEE. 



Tby rail to Pesth, Vienna, Niiremberg, Cologne, 

 Brussels, Boulogne to London, and thence to Twick-r 

 enham. Many times his charge was upon the point of 

 heing shipwrecked, but was saved by his indomitable 

 energy and perseverance. To combat the careless- 

 ness, and in some places even the positive disfavour 

 of railway officials, incessant attention was required. 

 He started with thirty-six siluruses and some tiger 

 eels— a remarkable and valuable fish, peculiar to the 

 Danube. Some of the siluruses were of large size, 

 up to 61b. They were conveyed in casks, about the 

 size of quarter-casks, placed upon rockers; these, 

 by keeping the casks constantly in motion, plashed 

 and aerated the water. The larger fish were sus- 

 pected, and no doubt with justice, of having eaten 

 the smaller ones, and with them the tiger eels. 

 They all died, however, but fourteen, which arrived 

 here safely on the night of Thursday, the 15th, in 

 the charge of Sir Stephen and my friend Mr. Lowe, 

 one of the secretaries of the Acolimatisation Society. 

 The little strangers varied from one to two ounces 

 in weight; they were perfectly healthy and lively, 

 and after their long fast of twenty-three days, they 

 made good use of their time when enlarged, as on 

 the next day, when I examined them, their stomachs 

 were distended with food. 



