No. 637] 



ONCE MORE THE SUCKING-FISH 



already in existence in the fourteenth century. Odoric 

 of Pordenone told how he came 



ivhich hath a brid^-e aeross 

 rratify me, said : " If thou 



v\ loose. Straightway tliey 

 . muubers of fish, and ever 

 as they caught tliein i)uttiii£r them of their own aceord into the baskets, 

 so that before Ions: all the tliree baskets were full. And iniue host then 

 took the cord off their necks and let them dive asrain to catch fish for 

 their own food. And when thev had thus fed they returned to tlieir 

 perches and were tied up as before. And some of those fish I had for 



This is followed by another kind of fishing: 



The men this time ^^ero in a boat, wherein thev had ; 

 ater; and tlicv were naked, and had each of them a ba 



The second kind of fishing is interesting from the fact 

 that it was much earlier told by Idrisi as in use at Zan- 

 zibar. 



iigs of the net together the 



10 Sir Henry Yule, "Cal 

 II, pp. 188 ff. 



