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" Why, the wash of water in and out of it 

 from the meat will collect dolphin by the 

 score about it, and very likely shark, neither of 

 which will leave it until starved away." 



Just then we had approached near enough 

 for Sam, from his lofty position, to take in 

 the surroundings, who, knowing nothing of 

 what the captain had been saying, shouted, 

 " Halloa, below there ! " 



" What is it, Sam ? " 



" Crikey ! crikey ! what a lot of fish are 

 about it ! Three and four feet long : how they 

 are scooting around ! By George ! captain 

 ( sailors are allowed to make their statements 

 emphatic), there is an awful big fish a little 

 way from it a kind of light-coloured fellow. 

 What do you think they are, sir ? " 



" The small ones are dolphins, and the large 

 one, by your description, the sailors' friend 

 the man-eater shark," the captain replied. 



" By Jingo ! I guess you are right, sir." 



This information put new life into every- 

 body, for after eighteen days' constant living 

 on salt food, we were fresh-fish hungry. 

 Dolphin at sea are always considered a luxury, 

 as scarcely more than one or two are captured 



