CHAPTER XI. 



HYDER'S FISH. 



"Due entrance he disdain'd, and in contempt 



"At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound." — 



Paradise Lost. 

 "And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide." — Corsair. 



£ ANCY Milton and Byron in the same boat. Somewhat 

 uncongenial company. But there they are at the head of 

 this chapter, so we will just leave them to get out of it 

 the best way they can, and proceed with our subject. 



Hyder's fish are not to be caught with the rod and line 

 that I know of, and perhaps ought not therefore to appear 

 in this book, but in their own way they show really excit- 

 ing sport; they must therefore have a. place; and I will 

 just extract from my official report two of the few para- 

 graphs bearing on this fish. 



Ohanos argenteus, 10 °- There is a Tei 7 ^ne fish to 



or salmoneus. Bl. be found only in one or two ponds at 

 Sc5in - Cundapur, and, though it has now a 



It is on precisely the ^3^^ muddy fl av0 ur, it has prob- 

 same principle that 



tench are improved in a % acquired it from the water in 

 flavour by three or which it lives, for report says that 

 four days passed in a Hyder introduced it, and dug the 



stone trough, fed by n , . , , 



. , . pond wherein to keep and rear it, as 



a current of spring r r ' 



water. a luxury for his own table. Its flesh 



