arked on board a ship_ bound for the Island of Utsthala,
where lived the King of the Fishermen, who, Saktideva hoped, would set
him on his way. On the voyage _there arose a great storm_ and the ship
went to pieces, _and a great fish swallowed Saktideva whole_. Then,
driven by the force of fate, the fish went to the Island of Utsthala,
and there the servants of the King of the Fishermen caught it, and the
king, wondering at its size, had it cut open, _and Saktideva came out
unhurt_."[78:1]

In Grecian fable, Hercules is said to have been swallowed by a whale, at
a place called Joppa, _and to have lain three days in his entrails_.

Bernard de Montfaucon, speaking of Jonah being swallowed by a whale, and
describing a piece of Grecian sculpture representing Hercules standing
by a huge sea monster, says:

"Some ancients relate to the effect that Hercules was also
swallowed by the whale that was watching Hesione, _that he
remained three days in his belly_, and that he came out
bald-pated after his sojourn there."[78:2]

Bouchet, in his "Hist. d'Animal," tells us that:

"The great fish which swallowed up _Jonah_, although it be
called a whale (Matt. xii. 40), yet it was not a whale,
properly so called, but a _Dog-fish_, called _Carcharias_.
Therefore in the Grecian fable _Hercules_ is said to have been
swallowed up of a _Dag_, and to have lain three days in his
entrails."[78:3]

Godfrey Higgins says, on this subject:

"The story of _Jonas_ swallowed up by a whale, is nothing but
part of the fiction of _Hercules_, described in the Heracleid
or Labors of Hercules, of whom the same story was told, and
who was swallowed up at the very same place, _Joppa_, and for
the same period of time, _three days_. Lycophron says that
Hercules was three nights in the belly of a fish."[78:4]

We have still another similar story in that of "_Arion the Musician_,"
who, being thrown overboard, was caught on the back of a _Dolphin_ and
landed safe on shore. The story is related in "Tales of Ancient Greece,"
as follows:

Arion was a Corinthian harper who had travelled in Sicily and

Italy, and had accumulated great wealth. Being desirous of again seeing
his native city, he set sail from Taras for Corinth. The sailors in the
ship, having seen the large boxes full of money which Arion had brought
with him into the ship, made up their minds to kill him and take h