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greatest ease.* Blumenbacli reports that an entire horse 

 has been removed from this strange sepulchre ; and Captain 

 Basil Hall speaks of one in which, besides sundries, he 

 found the skin of a buffalo, which, a short time before, 

 had been thrown overboard from his ship. 



THE WHITE SHARK. 



It is of this ferocious species that the following stories 

 are told. 



One day, in the North Sea, a sailor lowered himself 

 into the water for the purpose of swimming to a neigh- 

 bouring vessel, on board of which was an old comrade 

 whom he had not seen for many years. On his way he 

 was encountered by a shark, which, before the eyes of 

 all the awe-struck crew, made a fierce attack upon the 

 unfortunate swimmer. At the first snap of his jaws he 

 carried off a leg, at the second an arm, at the third a 

 shoulder. By dint of great exertions the seamen suc- 

 ceeded in rescuing from the shark their comrade's muti- 



Captain King, " Narrative of an Expedition in Australia." 



