94 THE DOLPHIN—ICHTHYOPHAGI—THE TUNNY 
of Conciliation or Compulsory Arbitration, a strike, occasioned 
either by divergence from the strict terms of the bargain, or by 
gauche “‘ handling ’’ of the workers—whether for it the sanction 
-of the Ballot or an order of the Shop Steward were a necessary 
preliminary my researches have not as yet disclosed—a strike, 
I repeat, could not be called off, but was irreparable, for ov«ér: 
of SeApivec apnydvec siotv ém’ dypnv.4 
By the Dolphins the economic weapon was evidently brought 
to greater perfection than by their human brethren. The 
crude “‘ down tooling ’’ of the Egyptian masons in the fourteenth 
century B.C., although accompanied by violence such as 
forcing main gates, etc., was (according to Maspero) quickly 
settled by the attacked Governor handing over the keys of 
the granaries, whence with bags—and bellies—full filled they 
meekly returned to work. ; 
Of another ingratiating characteristic of the Dolphin, its 
attachment and services to boys, instances are numerous and 
well attested.2 In truth we are compassed about with so great 
a cloud of witnesses, from the autoptic gospel of the Anti- 
Semite Apion? and of the wide-travelled Pausanias 4 to the 
1 Oppian, hal., V. 447. In medieval times instances of dolphins aiding 
fishermen are related by Albertus Magnus, De Animalibus, VI. p. 653, and by 
Rondolet, Libri de piscibus marinis, etc. (Lugduni, 1554-5), XVI. p. 471. At 
the present day in Lake Menzalah porpoises shepherd the fish: the Egyptian, 
however, spares to his helpers their lives, but naught else. The natives of 
Angola were much more recognisant of service, as an interesting description 
by an old traveller of a fish drive there evidences: ‘“‘ They use upon this coast 
to fish with harping irons, and waite upon a great fish which cometh once a 
day to feed along the shoare which is like a grampus. Hee runneth very near 
the shoare, and driveth great skuls of fish before him; the negroes runne 
along and strike their harping irons about him, and kill great store of fish, 
and leave them in the sand till the fish hath done feeding and then they come 
and gather up the fish. This fish will many times runne himself aground, 
but they will presently shore him off again, which is as much as four or five 
men can doe. They call him Emboa, which is in their speech a Dogge: and 
will by no means hurt or killany of them.” The Strange Adventures of Andrew 
Battell of Leigh in Essex. (Haklutus Posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes (ed. 
Glasgow, 1905-7), vol. VI. p. 404.) 
3°The evidence is collected and discussed by K. Klement, Arton (Wien, 
1898), pp. 1-64, and by H. Usener, Die Sint/luthsagen (Bonn, 1899), pp. 138-180. 
3 Aegyptiaca, book v. frag. 6 (Frag. hist. Gr., III. 510 f. Miller). 
4 Pausanias, III. 25. 7, recalls that among the votive offerings at Tenarum 
‘is a bronze statue of the minstrel Arion. Herodotus tells his story from 
hearsay, but I have actually seen the Dolphin at Poroselene that was mauled 
by fishermen and testified its gratitude to the boy who healed it. I saw that 
Dolphin answer to the boy’s call, and carry him on his back when he chose to 
tide.” 
