I have stated heretofore in print, and am still ready to maintain my pronouncement, that the tiger fish of Africa is the fiercest fish that swims. Let others hold forth as advocates for the mako shark, the barracuda, the piranha of the Amazon, or the bluefish of the Atlantic. To them I say "Pish and tush!" This sweeping challenge is not issued on behalf of the mighty Goliath Tiger, to whom I bow, hat in hand, but is offered in tribute to the common or garden "poor relation" tiger fish that abound throughout Northern and tropical Africa.

For among fresh water fish there is no other to which such dire implications are better fitted than to Hydrocyon goliath, the orgreish "water dog" of Equatorial Africa.