[419] Athen., VII. 90.
[420] N. H., XXXII. 6.
[421] Oppian, V. 66 ff.
[422] Cf. Pliny, IX. 68; Ælian, II. 13; Plutarch, De Sol. Anim., 31. With this pilot fish must be mentioned that other, so famous in New Zealand waters, “Pelorus Jack.” A cetacean of the Dolphin tribe, he regularly met the coastal steamers between Wellington and Nelson. The old Maori chief, Kipa Hemi, claimed that this fish, Kai Kai-a-waro, was not only the embodiment of his tribal Mana and his family guardian angel, but had guided his ancestor eleven generations before in his exploring of Cook Sound, etc.
[423] See W. Smith, Dict. Gk.-Rom. Biog. and Myth., s.v. ‘Athenæus.’
[424] Athen., III. 46. From Faber, op. cit., p. 94, we learn that “the pinnotherus finds refuse in the shells of living bivalves, living on the small animalculæ contained in the constant stream of water, which flows in and out of these molluscs. The fancy of the ancients has attributed the status existing between the two species as arising from a friendly alliance, protection and board afforded on the one hand, and watching against and warning of the approach of an enemy on the other. These observations descend from so early a date that we find the pinna and the crab among the Egyptian hieroglyphs, bearing the interpretation of the duty of paterfamilias to provide for his offspring.”
[425] The rendering of passages from Athenæus (Deipn.) and from Pliny (N. H.) are usually Bohn’s.
[426] After Kipling.
[427] Περὶ Ζώων ἰδιότητος.
[428] See Smith’s Dict. Gk. and Rom. Biog. and Myth., s.v. ‘Ælian.’