The arms of Sir Atwel-King Lake show a curious augmentation--viz., a dexter arm embowed--bent--issuing from the sinister side of the shield, holding in the hand a sword erect, thereto affixed a banner, bearing a cross between sixteen escutcheons, etc. These sixteen escutcheons were given to the original bearer of these arms, Dr. Edward Lake, a devoted adherent of Charles I., to commemorate the sixteen wounds that Lake received at the Battle of Naseby. Lord Nelson was granted a very pictorial augmentation of honour. "Waves or the sea, from which a palm-tree issues between a disabled ship on the dexter and a battery in ruins on the sinister." Nelson had also a crest of an "honourable augmentation," which he bore in addition to that of his family. A naval crown with the chelengk, or plume of triumph, presented to him by the Grand Sultan, Selim III. The augmentation of honour granted to the great Duke of Wellington took the shape of the Union Jack charged upon an inescutcheon, which was superimposed upon his own shield. CHAPTER VIII ANIMAL CHARGES (_continued_) Fish occur rarely in heraldry, for although they were considered typical of unfailing industry and vigilance, "always swimming against the stream and never falling asleep," yet they were held in far less esteem by the heralds of old than either the "earthy or airy creatures." Fish have, of course, their own heraldic terms for blazoning--viz.: A fish _charged horizontally upon the field_, is "naiant"--swimming (Fig. 47); _perpendicularly with its head upwards_, it is "hauriant" (Fig. 48)--literally, taking a draught; when placed _vertically with its head downwards_, it is "uriant"--diving; _with undimmed eyes_, it is "allumé"--alight; when _gasping with wide-open mouth_, it is "pamé"--exhausted. A fish is also blazoned as "finned of its fins," and when (as is always the case with the dolphin) its tail curves towards the head, it is "embowed." If the fish is _feeding_, it must be described as "vorant"--devouring--because watery creatures always swallow their prey whole. When two or three fish of the same kind are represented on a field swimming in opposite directions, they are blazoned as "contra-naiant"--swimming against each other. [Illustration: FIG. 47.] Mr. Fox-Davies quotes an example of this charge in the arms of Peebles, where one salmon is depicted swimming towards the dexter side of the shield, whilst two are swimming towards the sinister. This charge alludes evidently to the popular idea that for each salmon that ascends the river to spawn, two salmon return to the sea. When an eel is borne on a shield, it is always represented in a wavy form and is usually blazoned "ondoyant"--literally, wavy.