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FISHING FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES

THE FISH-AVATAR OF VISHNU,
WITH SCENES ILLUSTRATING THE LIFE OF KRISHNA.

FISHING FROM THE
EARLIEST TIMES

BY

WILLIAM RADCLIFFE

SOMETIME OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

THE OLDEST REPRESENTATION (BUT ONE) OF ANGLING,
c. 1400 B.C.

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1921

All rights reserved

TO
MY FISHING HOSTS AND FISHING FRIENDS
IN AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, AMERICA,
THE WEST INDIES, AND EUROPE.

UPON THEM, UPON ME MAY THE GODS BESTOW
THE BOON CRAVED BY MR. ANDREW LANG!

“Within the streams, Pausanias saith,That down Cocytus valley flow,Girdling the grey domain of Death,The spectral fishes come and go;The ghosts of trout fly to and fro,Persephone, fulfil my wish,And grant that in the shades belowMy ghost may land the ghosts of fish!”

[Pg vii]

PREFACE

Despite Francis Bacon’s dictum that “prefaces are great wastes oftime, and, though they seem to proceed of modesty, they are bravery,”I hazard a few words as to this book, which, like Topsy, “growed, I’spects,” from a chance request for a quotation from Homer on Fishingwith a Rod for my sister’s game-book.

It is, as far as I can discover, the first attempt to examineclassical and other ancient writers on Fishing from the standpoint ofone who has not only been a practical Pisciculturist for many yearsand an Angler all his life, but has also been taught (though somewhatforgotten) his Greek and Latin.

If my work, in the main, is necessarily based on the compilations ofothers, it yet by serendipity (to adopt Hor

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