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intention to uphold his favourite against any attacks or 
insults:— 
“ Though thou compar’st him to a flying fish, 
And threatenest death whether he rise or fall, 
’Tis not the hugest monster of the sea, 
Nor foulest harpy that shall swallow him.” (ii. 2.) 
The shoals of Flying-fish are often described by the 
early explorers. Joseph Acosta writes :— 
“ There are other small fishes, which they call flying fishes, the 
which are found within the tropickes, and in no other place, as I 
thinke: they are pursued by the ducades; and to escape them they 
leape out of the sea, and goe a good way in the ayre, and for this 
reason they are called flying fishes: they have wings as it were of 
linnen cloath, or of parchment, which doe support them some space in 
the ayre. There did one flye or leape into the ship wherein I went, 
the which I did see, and observe the fashion of his wings.” ( Purchas , 
vol. iii. p. 931.) 
Sir Thomas Herbert, writing in 1626, says :— 
“ The greatest recreation we had [in the Eed Sea] was a view of 
such large sholes of flying fishes as by their interposing multitude for 
some time darkned the body of the sun; a fish beautiful in its eye, the 
body though no larger than a small herring yet big enough for those 
complemental fins, which so long as moist serve as wings to fly 200 
paces or more, and 40 feet high, helping them to avoid the pursuit 
which sharks, dolphins, bonetaes, albicores, and other sea-tvrants make, 
and causes them for self-preservation to forsake their proper element. 
. . . The French call it aronder dumer , the swallow of the sea; others 
a sea bat, or reremouse of the sea.” ( Travels , p. 39.) 
Some uncertainty prevails as to the date when tlie 
Carp was first introduced into England. ^ 
Dame Juliana Berners, in ber Treatise on 
Angling , printed 1496, writes, “ The carpe is a deyntous 
fysslie: but there ben but fewe in Englonde and ther- 
fore I wryte the lasse of hym ” (p. 27, ed. 1841). Leonard 
Mascall, a Sussex gentleman, has had the credit of im- 
