Giant Fish of Florida 



fifteen feet long. If you catch a great leopard shark, or man- 

 eater (Carcharodon carcharias), the white belly of which is 

 seen in the photograph facing the following page, it may be 

 worth while ripping him up to see whether there are any boots 

 within, or perchance even more personal signs of human 

 occupation. In one of these a sea-lion weighing 100 Ib. was 

 once found on the California coast, but you will be far more 

 likely to come across a quantity of horseshoe crabs. 



From this last shark figured we took three or four young 

 ones, quite ready to swim away if they had been given the 

 chance. They were not, for it is no part of humaneness to 

 spare sharks. 



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