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tary, although some types do move in large groups. It was 

 seldom that I saw more than two individuals at a time, though 

 once I saw five moving leisurely along the face of the reef. 

 When I think of the Inaguan sharks I think of most of them as 

 associated with some definite place. The tiger shark patrolled 

 the reef face where I first went down; week after week it could 

 be found in that neighborhood. The sandy area just beyond 

 the surf north of Mathewtown was the feeding ground of a 

 pair of nurse sharks. An isolated patch of brain coral that grew 

 all by itself midway between the shore and the place, a quarter 

 mile out, where the bottom dropped away to the great depths, 

 not far from the location of my old house, was the hub of ex- 

 istence for a six-foot ground shark which seemed to go on 

 numerous trips but which always returned to its coral castle 

 to rest or to swim idly about, weaving its tail in graceful, slow 

 undulations. There were also a few species that were imper- 

 manent, true drifters and wanderers. These made their appear- 

 ance and immediately disappeared or hovered around for a 

 day or two at most before taking off into the misty distances. 

 Chief among these wanderers was a large blue shark, and it 

 was this particular individual that first brought to my attention 

 the fact that sharks are undeniably beautiful. It appeared on a 

 day when an unaccountable shift of the current brought large 

 masses of sargassum weed drifting in from the direction of 

 Cuba just below the horizon. On this particular day I did not 

 have sharks on my mind at all but went diving for the sole 

 purpose of examining some of the floating gulf-weed from 

 underneath, hoping to see some of the famed sargassum animals 

 chnging to the bright yellow fronds. I was hanging hghtly 

 suspended from my life line just a foot or so beneath the sur- 

 face watching the drifting masses go by. An unusually large 

 clump came within reach and I wedged it between the keel 

 of my boat and the line hoping thus to keep it there while 1 



