Sea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables Explained

by Henry Lee

CONTENTS.

• PAGE
• [The Mermaid] 1
• [The Lernean Hydra] 48
• [Scylla and Charybdis] 59
• [The "Spouting" of Whales] 62
• [The "Sailing" of the Nautilus] 76
• [Barnacle Geese—Goose Barnacles] 98

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

• FIG. PAGE
• [A Mermaid. From a picture by Otto Sinding] Frontispiece
• • [Noah, His Wife and Three Sons, as Fish-tailed Deities. From a gem in the Florentine Gallery. After Calmet] 2
  • [Hea, or Noah, the God of the Flood. Khorsabad] 3
  • [Dagon. From a bas-relief. Nimroud] 4
  • [Dagon: Half Man, Half Fish. From Lamy's 'Apparatus Biblicus'] 5
  • [Dagon. From an agate signet. Nineveh] "
  • [Fish Avatar of Vishnu. After Calmet and Maurice] 6
  • [Atergatis, The Goddess of the Syrians. From a Phœnician Coin] 8
  • [Venus Rising from the Sea, Supported by Tritons. After Calmet] 9
  • [Venus Drawn in Her Chariot by Tritons. From two Corinthian Coins] 10
  • [Ditto.] 11
  • [Seal, Drawn as a Fish. From the Catacombs at Rome] "
  • [Mermaid and Fishes of Amboyna. After Valentyn] 17
  • [A Japanese Artificial Mermaid] 27
  • [An Artificial Mermaid. Probably Japanese] 28
  • [Portrait of a Mermaid said to have been Captured in Japan] 29
  • [The Dugong. From Sir J. Emerson Tennent's 'Ceylon'] 43
  • [The Manatee] 45
  • [Figure of a Calamary, From the Temple of Bayr-el-Bahree] 50
  • [Figure of an Octopus on a Gold Ornament found by Dr. Schliemann at Mycenæ] 51
  • [Ditto.] 52
  • [Ditto.] 53
  • [Ditto.] "
  • [Hercules Slaying the Lernean Hydra] 57
  • [The Physeter Inundating a Ship. After Olaus Magnus] 64
  • [A Whale Pouring Water into a Ship from its Blow-hole. After Olaus Magnus] 64
  • [Sperm Whales "Spouting"] 65
  • [The Paper Nautilus (Argonauta argo) Sailing] 76
  • [Ditto. Retracted Within its Shell] 81
  • [Ditto. Crawling] 86
  • [Ditto. Swimming] 87
  • [Shell of the Paper Nautilus (Argonauta argo)] 88
  • [Shell of the Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius)] 89
  • [The Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus Pompilius) and Section of its Shell] 90
  • [The Goose-Tree. From Gerard's 'Herball'] 104
  • [Ditto. Fac-simile from Aldrovandus] 110
  • [Development of Barnacles into Geese. Fac-simile from Aldrovandus] 111
  • [Section of a Sessile Barnacle. Balanus tintinnabulum] 113
  • [Pedunculated Barnacle. Lepas anatifera] 115
  • [A Ship's Figure-head Partly Covered with Barnacles] 116
  • [Whale Barnacle. Coronula diadema] 117
  • [A Young Barnacle. Larva of Chthamalus stellatus] 118

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SEA FABLES EXPLAINED.