THE WHITE SHARK. 6? 



Whose friend was severed in two. 



that words cannot describe. The insatiable shark 

 was seen traversing the bloody surface in search 

 of the remainder of his prey, when the brave 

 youth plunged into the water, determining either 

 to make the shark disgorge, or to be buried him- 

 self in the same grave. He held in his hand a 

 long and sharp-pointed knife, and the rapacious 

 animal pushed furiously towards him: he had 

 turned on his side, and opened his enormous 

 jaws, in order to seize him, when the youth, 

 diving dexterously seized him with his left hand 

 somewhere below the upper fins, and stabhed 

 him several times in the belly. The shark, en- 

 raged with pain, and streaming with blood, 

 plunged in all directions in order to disengage 

 himself from his enemy. The crews of the sur- 

 rounding vessels saw that the combat was de- 

 cided ; but they were ignorant which was slain, 

 till the shark, weakened at length by loss of 

 blood, made towards the shore, and along with 

 him his conqueror; who, flushed with victor}', 

 pushed his foe with redoubled ardour, and, with 

 the aid of an ebbing tide, dragged him on shore. 

 Here he ripped up the bowels of the animal, ob- 

 tained the severed remainder of his friend's body, 

 and buried it with the trunk in the same grave. 



An Indian, on the coast of California, on 

 plunging into the sea, was seized by a shark; 

 but, by a most extraordinary feat of activity, 

 cleared himself, and, though considerably wound- 

 ed, threw blood and water at the animal to sh,r>'v 

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