Cbap. 11.] 
THE TUESIO. 
377 
Dolphins, also, form among themselves a sort of general 
community. One of them having been captured by a king of 
Caria and chained up in the harbour, great multitudes of dol- 
phins assembled at the spot, and with signs of sorrow which 
could not be misunderstood, appealed to the sympathies of 
the people, until at last the king ordered it to be released. 
The young dolphins, also, are always attended by a larger 
one, who acts as a guardian to them ; and before now, they have 
been seen^^ carrying off the body of one which had died, that 
it might not be devoured by the sea-monsters. 
CHAP. 11. (9.) THE TUKSIO. 
There is a fish called the tursio,^^ which bears a strong re- 
semblance to the dolphin ; it differs from it, however, in a 
certain air of sadness, and is wanting in its peculiar vivacity. 
This animal most resembles the dog-fish,^^ however, in the 
shape and dangerous powers of the muzzle. 
CHAP. 12. (10.) TIJETLES.^^ THE VAEI0T7S KmDS OF TXTHTLES, 
AI^D HOW I'HEY AKE CAUGHT. 
The Indian Sea^^ produces turtles of such vast^^ size, that 
with the shell of a single animal they are able to roof a habit- 
^3 The same is stated in Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. ix. c. 74, and JElian, 
Hist. Anim. B. v. c. 6. 
This is also mentioned by Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. ix. c. 74. 
91 ^lian, Hist. Anim. B. xii. c. 6. 
^2 Cuvier remarks, that there is some confusion here between an animal 
of the dolphin kind, and another of the genus Squalus. He suggests that 
the Delphinus tursio of Linnaeus (our porpoise) is meant ; but then there 
would be no ground for comparing its teeth with those of the dog-fish or 
shark. He remarks also, that Athenaeus, B. vii. p. 310, speaks of pieces of 
salted flesh from the dog-fish, as being called by the name of tursio. 
93 Under this name he probably means the shark as well as the dog-fish. 
This passage is curiously rendered by Holland. '^But especially they are 
snouted like dogges, when they snarle, grin, and are readie to do a shrewd 
turne." 
91 "We may here remark, that Pliny throughout calls these animals 
^'testudines," — "tortoises." It has been thought better, in the transla- 
tion, in order to avoid confusion, to give them their distinctive name of 
*^ turtle." 
95 This passage, down to the words ''to the fishermen," is found in 
Agatharchides, as quoted by Photius. 
92 See B. xxxii. c. 4. 
