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their Liver affords great quantity of Lamp-Oil, and that they are of Eighteen 
or Twenty Foot long about the Carives. 
Several of them fet about one Seal to take him, encompaffing and falling 
on him with their joint ftrength, Oviedo. , 
They go fatter than a Ship will Sail, as much asa Man can out-run a Boy of 
Four Yearsold. They turn round the Ship, and go from fide to fide, and 
from Head toStern. They follow a Ship Two hundred Leagues and may 
further. Are cut in pieces, dried in the Ropes, and eat in two or three Days, 
or freth with Garlick Sauce. They are not good for Paflengers. ihe ‘Males 
have two Penes, in one eight Foot long, it was as long as from the Cubic 
to the middle Fingers end: the Female but one Vulva. They bring Thiccy 
five Young ones at a Birth alive, Oviedo. Huns i : 
Divers in Pearl-Fifhing are hurt by Sharks, Lact. p. 668. 
They are taken by Riverft or Remore by the Ladians, Col. £12. 
They are ina Salt-Lake near the Sea in Hifpaniola, Ovied. 32. 123 
They enter the Rivers, and arc no lefs'perillousthan great Lizards or Cro- 
codiles, devouring Mankind: and Horfes, Ovieds fum.. © noily 
They are taken once or twice with the fame Bair, Derry. cw ay 4 
Thomas Smith, a Boy, {wimming about the Ship by Sxrar, had moft of the 
outfide of his Thigh bitten'away, of which the died with bleeding, Parchas 
Downtom, p. 505. it c 9 ET oe: 
They are fifhed for Oil. One was pulled into the Sea by a Shark in che 
Night, » Xxivet. | 
ike at ‘one Bice within. a -SaltoLake in the Country 
‘Aartyr, ° a Sih TR Bs iyi s 3 3 ch aid chs } fe 
-- They are mangled and made‘a-Prey to. others of the fame Kind: Ligon. 
Twas told at Montpelier there was one qheretaken it the Mediterranean Cif I 
remember right) forty Foot long. ‘A:‘Man bathing hintelf by Port-Royil in 
Fmaica, one {wam by him and/bitoff :great part)of- his: Breaft and Arm of 
which he prefently died by the flux of Blood. sto» 
This is the Zubaron or Hays of Linfchoten. Tuberones, Lact. p.571, 586 
669. Shark of Zerry, p.g: Of Hfortop. Flakl. p. 487. Of William Finch. 
p. 416. ‘Of Nicol. Purchas, p. 1257. Of Ligon, p. 6.. Of Smath, Summer- 
Ufles, p.172. New-Enzland, p.r27. fay of Martens. -Dog-fith, called’ by the 
Portugals Tubarones, Of Knivet, Purchas. Canis Carcharias. feu Lamia Ronde- 
letii ¢ aliorum, Raii, p.47.7ab. B. 7. Where teems to be.a bad figure from 
Gefner. Sharks of Anonymus Portugal of Braftle, Purchas, lib-7. cap. 1.p2%3) 4. 
Whoitells that they Kill Mien; and.thatithey find anthem Breeches, ee: when 
taken ; as alfo “that® Zrdiansiufe their Teeth for Headsof Arrows, ‘bein 
poifonous, 2b. Requiem d Abbeville, p. 30. Tiburon of Gwiedo fum, p. aided 2 ihe 
Lamia Rondeletii, p.390. Tiburo Ejnfdem, p. 489. where;'-im his account Gaim 
Lopez, de Gomara, he ‘confoun:s the ‘Crocodiles and “Sharks. u4n° Maraxus 
Ejafd.ib> Lamia of Ravolfe in the Mediterranean. Kairos, Cetas, the Whale of 
Fonas, Math. cap. 2.40. Ziburoni di Fernan, Clon, f. 199 aedabed. \Canis 
Carcharias, Bellon. p. 58. Lamia, Ejufd. p 98. Tiburonus: Martyr Decad. p. 25! 
252. Tiburo Fernandez, p. 87. Carcharias Pifcis, Gyllit, p..587.° cup. 99. El 
Tiluron de Hlernandez a Ximenes, edit. p. 182. Requiem de Rochef. 191 Du 
gertre,202. de Denis, Tom. 2.272. Sharks or Tiburons of ‘Sir Fohn Fisphins 
Flakl.sPart.3. p. 516. -Tiburones de Oviedo, lib. 13. -cap.(6. ec eap. fol 3 A 
Shark called by the: Portucuefe Tuberones, and che -Dutch Flayes, of Mardell 
p. 197. 219. Shark of Sir Rich. Famkins, p.ao. Of Fenton or Ward. 
fTakl. p.767. ‘Boyle of Air, p.179. Touherans de Feynes,. p.206. ‘Lamie ke 
Molinet, p..203. An Paimones.'Pyrard. de la Val, making wading from one 
Méalaive Mand vo another.difieult, ip.72 ? ) 
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