Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25
The Fish Market In COnstantinople.

COnStantinoplc is supplied with q
great abundance and great variety of
fish. An old resident, who is we'll ac-
quainted with the markets, has recently
catalOgued and described twenty-three
species of fish which are common to the
Marmora and the Bosphorus, but. as to
some of those species there are varieties.
the total number of varieties coming TO
market exceeds seventy. Many of these
species are excellent; for instance, the
lobster, the John Dory, the red and
gray mullet, the funny, the t,lrbot, the
swordfish and the mackerel- The gen
tleman who has taken the trouble thus
to catalogue the fish committed one
slight error, for which he was unmerci-
fully laughed ut. He inserted in his list
Of fish the edible snail, simply because
he saw 1t in vast Quantities in the fish
market. So also Sir Charles Fellows
said, in 1888, that he had seen dozen
hampers of these snails, but he did moi
take them for fish. Ihave seen them often
myself, and am certain that they are
nothing but land Snails, such as are
eaten i'm many parts of the continent
In Constantinople, Us in other places,
they are thought to be good for con-
sumptive patients. Hone, in his Every.
DayBook, speaks VI the -. palamedes"
as much smaller than the funny, but as
having so much of the same nature that
some persons have supposed it TO be
only the young of that fish. If he were
so, he would be very well-grown child,
for he is commonly nearly two feet in
length. If you were to see the funny
and the .palamedes side by side Won
would not take them for father and son.
The palamedos is distinct fish, and is.
as Gibbon justly tells us, one of the
most delicious fish in the Bosphorus.
He passes his time in chasing the small
mackcrel and pilchards during their
periodical trips between the Marrnora
and the Black Sea; and, while he is
thus pleasantly engaged, he is taken
from the. bank with a metal bait at
tached TO a very long line.
There is q great deal of fishing from
the shore in the Bosphorus. The houses
come down close to the waters edge.
The small fish, to avoid the palamedes.
swim close along the shore, and the
crafty householder stands on the step OF
his back door, and with a..haad. netex.
tracts his dinner from the transparent
stream 1HcTe dTb SIX varieties Oh
mackerelin the Bosphorus; there are ex-
cellent oysters and prawns; and the
dolphin and the porpoise are also
brought to market But of the large
FISH the swordfish is the king. His flesh,
which is of a dullish red, is far superior
to that of the sturgeon, which fused to
eat at Greenwich and Blackwell, and
which always tasted ike poor veal. A
outlet OF sword-f sh is by no means to
be desPised. The creature grows to- a
very great size Two years ago was
in a caique near Beicos, on the Asiatic
side OF the Upper Bosphorus. where
these creatures most abound, when
very large fish shot suddenly I'D from
the water at about ten feet distant from
the caique. He exposed fully one-half
of his body, and his wet sword cleaned
in the fierce sunlight like 2 polished
spear. / trembled as / thought what
must have happened If the beast had
taken 1t into his head to come up Inn
mediately under the caicue. The
sword. which is frequently more than
three feet in length, is as tough as
shilleiagh, and has point like that OF
bayonet-Aa the Kear R0uz1