LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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| The Fish Avatar of Vishnu, with Scenes Illustrating Life of Krishna |
Frontispiece | |
| The Oldest (save one) Representation of Angling, c. 1400 b.c. |
Title page | |
| Poseidon, Heracles, and Hermes Fishing | 11 | |
| Aztec Fishing | 22 | |
| Aztec Boating | 23 | |
| Palæolithic Engravings: Seals, Dead Trout, and (?) Eels |
26 | |
| Alaskan Hook with a Wizard’s Head | 28 | |
| Bone Gorges | 32 | |
| (1) The Eurycantha latro. (2) Hook made from its Leg Joints |
facing | 34 |
| Barbed Harpoons | 37 | |
| Broken Harpoon from Kent’s Cave | 37 | |
| Fishing Net spun by Spiders | facing | 42 |
| Fishermen on the Vase of Phylakopi | ” | 63 |
| “In at the Death” | ” | 72 |
| Methods of Fishing, from Roman Mosaic | 75 | |
| Mr. Minchin’s Explanation of κέρας | 83 | |
| The Dolphin and the Boy of Iasos | 96 | |
| Cutting up the Tunny | 100 | |
| Artemis with a large Fish painted on her Dress | 127 | |
| “The Happy Fisherman” | 131 | |
| The Fowler’s Rod | 149 | |
| Venus and Cupid Angling | 168 | |
| Torpedo Fish | facing | 180 |
| (1) Fisherman and Son. (2) Son saluting Wayside Hermes | 186 | |
| The Naked Fisherman of the Vatican | facing | 201 |
| Two Men Fishing | 220 | |
| Arethusa | 221 | |
| A Greek Angler | facing | 235 |
| Mycenæan Hooks | 238 | |
| Angling with Wine, from a Mosaic at Melos | facing | 240 |
| Fish on a Pompeian Mosaic in the Naples Museum | ” | 254 |
| Head of Tiberius. Temple with two Columns in shape of Fish, from a Coin of Abdera |
273 | |
| The Rape of Helen, from a Fifth Century b.c. Scyphos | 294 | |
| The Return of Helen ”” ”” | 296 | |
| Egyptians carrying a large Fish | 300 | |
| Early Harpoons | 308 | |
| An Egyptian Reel | facing | 309 |
| Spearing Fish | ” | 309 |
| Senbi Spearing Fish | 310 | |
| The Earliest Representation of Angling and 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 |