348 I N A G U A 



in the present. Yet I know that it is not improbable that the 

 sharks, hving as they do in the depths of the unchanging ocean 

 will be swarming the waters of the world when our man-made 

 cities are crumbling mounds of earth and that they will be 

 feeding, as they do now and have been doing for breathless 

 ages on the crustaceans and the fishes, in a time when man will 

 be a forgotten, precocious creature who, for a brief space of 

 time, nearly upset the balance of nature. 



