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towing. This was a plan which the soldiers had 

 borrowed from the French sailors. 



It was high tide^ and Governor's Island Bay was 

 full of water. The "sending to sea" was therefore 

 easy enough. Oif swam the shark, paddling slowly 

 with his fins, and with the two casks after him. He 

 seemed by no means satisfied with the work he had 

 to do, and like a convict no doubt hoped to get rid 

 of his fetters. In this, however, he was disappointed, 

 for three days afterwards the fishermen in Manhattan 

 Bay brought the news to New York that a shark 

 had been found drowned with two empty casks 

 fastened to his tail. The brute had swum sixty 

 miles before succumbing to his fate. 



I have now to relate my fourth adventure, in 

 which I had to encounter three sharks. I have 

 already stated that sharks abound on the coasts of 

 the United States, but the monsters who frequent 

 those parts are even more hideous than their 

 European congeners. It is a peculiarity worthy of 

 remark that the pilot-fish that accompany the Euro- 

 pean sharks abandon those which frequent the North 

 American waters.* It is said that the American 



* In the Mediterranean, and on tlie shores of Europe, the shark is 

 always accompanied by two or three fish of about afoot long, with black 

 stripes around the body, and very often holding on to the shark. They 

 are called pilot-fish, because they frequently precede and seem to guide 

 the shark. The voracious brute, which swallows up all other fish, 

 appears to respect its little friends. Pilot-fish have been hauled aboaixl, 

 attached to sharks which have been caught. During a voyage to India, 

 a captain from Charleston saw a pilot-fish jumping after an enormous 



