The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.82
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.82
- Language
- English
c16.82
⁴ The habits of the people on the coast are absolutely unchanged. Men, women, children, dogs, camels, cats, and cattle, all eat fish (*Geogr. J.*, 1896, p. 388). Philostratus was correctly informed when he wrote that ‘the sheep of the country... are queer feeders—the shepherds pasture them on fish, as they do on figs in Caria’ (*Apollonius*, iii, 55).