Part 12

BARNACLE GEESE--GOOSE BARNACLES 98

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIG. PAGE

A MERMAID. From a picture by Otto Sinding Frontispiece

1. NOAH, HIS WIFE AND THREE SONS, AS FISH-TAILED DEITIES. 2 From a gem in the Florentine Gallery. After Calmet

2. HEA, OR NOAH, THE GOD OF THE FLOOD. Khorsabad 3

3. DAGON. From a bas-relief. Nimroud 4

4. DAGON: HALF MAN, HALF FISH. From Lamy's 'Apparatus 5 Biblicus'

5. DAGON. From an agate signet. Nineveh "

6. FISH AVATAR OF VISHNU. After Calmet and Maurice 6

7. ATERGATIS, THE GODDESS OF THE SYRIANS. From a 8 Phoenician Coin

8. VENUS RISING FROM THE SEA, SUPPORTED BY TRITONS. After 9 Calmet

9. VENUS DRAWN IN HER CHARIOT BY TRITONS. From two 10 Corinthian Coins

10. DITTO. 11

11. SEAL, DRAWN AS A FISH. From the Catacombs at Rome "

12. MERMAID AND FISHES OF AMBOYNA. After Valentyn 17

13. A JAPANESE ARTIFICIAL MERMAID 27

14. AN ARTIFICIAL MERMAID. Probably Japanese 28

15. PORTRAIT OF A MERMAID SAID TO HAVE BEEN CAPTURED IN JAPAN 29

16. THE DUGONG. From Sir J. Emerson Tennent's 'Ceylon' 43

17. THE MANATEE 45

18. FIGURE OF A CALAMARY, FROM THE TEMPLE OF BAYR-EL-BAHREE 50

19. FIGURE OF AN OCTOPUS ON A GOLD ORNAMENT FOUND BY DR. 51 SCHLIEMANN AT MYCENAE

20. DITTO. 52

21. DITTO. 53

22. DITTO. "

23. HERCULES SLAYING THE LERNEAN HYDRA 57

24. THE PHYSETER INUNDATING A SHIP. After Olaus Magnus 64