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exhausted, his liold on me relaxes, and in his very 

 death struggle, my arm again is free ! I took my 

 seat with sobered feelings, thinking by how narrow 

 a chance the pursuer had escaped the fate of his 

 victim ! 



On another occasion there occurred something 

 worth relating, which, that I might not offend the 

 delicacy of the fastidious, I have turned into Latin, 

 trusting that, thus forewarned, they will not go out 

 of their way to read it. 



I had observed a fish in Skull Creek channel 

 taking his course toward the sea. Shortly after, I 

 saw another, taking precisely the same track. The 

 first then turned toward the Hilton Head shore, 

 so did the second. I silently pursued them, until 

 they approached within one hundred yards of the 

 beach, in the hope of striking one or the other 

 of them. Then checking the speed of the boat, 

 while the boatmen lay on their oars, prepared to 

 turn the boat in any direction that might be 

 required, and while in eager expectation, I stood 

 prepared to dart my harpoon 



Subito, Iseva sed longiore spatio, quam, si jacu- 

 latus essem, speraverini transfigere ictu duos 

 pisces cephalopteras aspexi, amplexu conjunctos. 

 Ventribus juxtapositis capitibus erectis, et supra 



nndam oblatis antennis lascive intersertis coitum 

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