[858] Herod., II. 149.
[859] Diodorus Siculus, I. 52. Twenty-two different kinds of fish existed in the royal fish ponds of Mœris. Keller, op. cit., 330.
[860] II. 98.
[861] See Grenfell and Hunt, Tebtunis Papyri, II. 180-1, and I. 49-50. Also Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka, I. 137 ff. The craft employed were usually primitive rafts or canoes made of papyrus canes bound together with cords of the same plant. Theophrastus, Hist. Plantarum, IV. 8, 2, alludes to them. Pliny, N. H., VII. 57, speaks of Nile boats made of papyrus, rushes and reeds, while Lucan, IV. 136, refers to them in
“Conseritur bibula Memphitis cymba papyro.”
[862] II. 95.
[863] See Alan H. Gardiner, The Tomb of Amenemhat (London, 1915), Pl. II, and Petrie, Medum, Pl. XII.
[864] Onomasticon, VI. 48. A primitive method of curing prevailed in the last century among the Yapoos—“the fisher then bites out a large piece of the fish’s belly, takes out the inside, and hangs the fish on a stick by the fire in his canoe.” See Darwin, Voyages of Adventure, etc. (London, 1839), p. 428.
[865] Mish., Makhshirin, VI. 3. The Greeks and Copts of the present day, whose enjoined fasts are frequent, rarely split their fish before packing them in large earthen pots.
[866] Rechnungen aus den Zeit Setis, I. 87 ff.