Note 574 — Chapter XVII
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Pliny, N. H., XXXII. 5; Ovid, Hal., 44 ff.; Plutarch, De Sol. Anim., 25. This trick is also characteristic of the Armado of the Parana river, but its enormous strength enables it also either to jerk the paddle of the fisher away, or to capsize the boat. Cf. S. Wright, The Romance of the World’s Fisheries (London, 1908), p. 208.