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AND LOWER EGYl'T. 343
The bolty is caught in the Nile, but chiefly in
the little canals that run out of it, and the pools
of water that remain after the inundation. It is
of the small number of Egyptian fishes that may
be reckoned delicate and well-flavoured. I saw
an Egyptian, in the neighbourhood of Rossetta,
catch a great number of small ones, in one of the
pools formed by the waters of the Nile. He used
that kind of net which we call a casting-net.
Every time he thrc^v it he caught a great many
hollies, but no other fish.
The second figure in the same Plate XXVII.
represents one of those bad fishes destitute of
scales, with naked slippery skins, which are
common in the Nile, and of which naturalists
have formed a genus by the name of silurus. Its
common appellation in Egypt is bayatte; but I
have likewise heard it called saksatt, and hebedt.
The inhabitants of Said call it also bogar, on
account of the size it attains. Bakar in Arabic
signifies an ox, and the people of Said, like other
peasants all the world over, speaking their
language badly, pronounce it bogar. Forskal has
given an account of this fish, in his description of
the animals of Egypt and Arabia *.
* Silui us bajad : pinna dor si postica adijtfa ; cirrhis ?:te, page
66.—'Arted. Gen, Vac, page 569.
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The bolty is caught in the Nile, but chiefly in
the little canals that run out of it, and the pools
of water that remain after the inundation. It is
of the small number of Egyptian fishes that may
be reckoned delicate and well-flavoured. I saw
an Egyptian, in the neighbourhood of Rossetta,
catch a great number of small ones, in one of the
pools formed by the waters of the Nile. He used
that kind of net which we call a casting-net.
Every time he thrc^v it he caught a great many
hollies, but no other fish.
The second figure in the same Plate XXVII.
represents one of those bad fishes destitute of
scales, with naked slippery skins, which are
common in the Nile, and of which naturalists
have formed a genus by the name of silurus. Its
common appellation in Egypt is bayatte; but I
have likewise heard it called saksatt, and hebedt.
The inhabitants of Said call it also bogar, on
account of the size it attains. Bakar in Arabic
signifies an ox, and the people of Said, like other
peasants all the world over, speaking their
language badly, pronounce it bogar. Forskal has
given an account of this fish, in his description of
the animals of Egypt and Arabia *.
* Silui us bajad : pinna dor si postica adijtfa ; cirrhis ?:te, page
66.—'Arted. Gen, Vac, page 569.
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