HAND-LINING _facing_ 314 A FISHING SCENE ” 318 THE OXYRHYNCUS TAKING THE PLACE OF THE BIRD SOUL 328 FISHERMAN WADING WITH CREEL ROUND NECK _facing_ 349 MEN FISHING ASTRIDE GOATSKINS ” 355 THE NET OF NINGIRSU (SO-CALLED) ” 358 FISH-GOD 365 GILGAMESH CARRYING FISH 367 THE DEMON OF THE SOUTH-WEST WIND 370 THE FIGHT BETWEEN MARDUK AND TIĀMAT _facing_ 392 TOBIAS, IN _La Madonna del Pesce,_ BY RAPHAEL ” 397 A PRE-INCA FISHING SCENE 399 ATARGATIS, FROM A COIN OF HIERAPOLIS 426 JONAH ENTERING THE WHALE’S MOUTH, FROM A 14TH CENTURY MS. 439 JONAH LEAVING ” ” ” ” ” 442 CHINESE ANGLING _facing_ 449 CHINESE FISHING ” 458 ANCIENT FISHING INTRODUCTION PART I “_And first for the Antiquity of_ Angling, _I shall not say much; but onely this: Some say, it is as ancient as_ Deucalion’s _Floud: and others (which I like better) say that_ Belus _(who was the inventer of godly and vertuous Recreations) was the Inventer of it: and some others say (for former times have had their Disquisitions about it) that_ Seth, _one of the sons of_ Adam, _taught it to his sons, and that by them it was derived to Posterity. Others say, that he left it engraven on those Pillars, which hee erected to preserve the knowledge of_ Mathematicks, Musick, _and the rest of those precious Arts, which by God’s appointment or allowance, and his noble industry were thereby preserved from perishing in Noah’s Floud_.”—ISAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler. “_You see the way the Fisherman doth take To catch the Fish; what Engins doth he make? Behold how he ingageth all his wits, Also his Snares, Lines, Angles, Hooks, and Nets. Yet fish there be, that neither Hook, nor Line, Nor Snare, nor Net, nor Engin can make thine; They must be grop’t for, and be tickled too, Or they will not be catch’t, whate’er you do._” JOHN BUNYAN, The Pilgrim’s Progress. (The Author’s Apology for his book.) “_Elle extend ses filets, elle invente de nouveaux moyens de succès, elle s’attache un plus grand nombre d’hommes. Elle pénètre dans les profondeurs des abîmes, elle arrache aux angles les plus secrets, elle poursuit jusqu’aux extrémités du globe les objets de sa constante recherche._”—G. E. LACÈPÉDE, Hist. Nat. des poissons. “_What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed, when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions are not beyond all Conjecture._”—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Urne-Buriall.