88 SQUALIDES. 



dition he was exhausted by the loss of blood, and 

 the shark gained its object. 



West India negroes, sometimes show a fearless 

 dexterity in diving in among these sharks, with 

 keen knives, purposely for the pleasure of butch- 

 ering them. On the coast of California, the In- 

 dians, occasionally sustain extraordinary combats 

 with the same species, for the amusement of Eu- 

 ropean spectators. 



Notwithstanding the ferocity, and apparently in- 

 satiable appetite of the white shark, it is said they 

 will not touch a fowl having the feathers on. 



In the history of Barbadoes, and in the relations 

 of voyagers to the South Sea Islands, all that is 

 shocking in the history of this creature may be 

 found. 



In the records of Aix, a seaport of France, in 

 the Mediterranean Sea, is the account of a shark, 

 taken by the fishermen, twentytwo feet long, in 

 whose stomach, among other undigested remains, 

 was the headless body of a man, encased in com- 

 plete armor. 



A friend has sent us the following note for 

 the truth of which he is ready to pledge his repu- 

 tation. 



" Some years ago, a young gentleman going 

 passenger to the Island of Jamaica, when near the 

 port of destination, was drowned. A short time 



