The Biography of a Man-Eater 



shore, he destroyed it, rolling over and over, biting 

 the net, tearing it into countless pieces. A doryman 

 attacked him with a harpoon upon which he turned 

 savagely, gripped the cutwater in his teeth, nearly 

 crushing it and lifting the boat several feet. The 

 men pulled off at a glimpse of his size, and the next 

 day some of his teeth were found in the planking. 



One summer he came up the coast searching for 

 some cattle steamer, but finding none he swam on, 

 and attracted by the fishing boats, followed several. 

 Food was scarce. Horse mackerel eluded him. One 

 day he ate a huge jelly fish in desperation, and next 

 seized and rent a mass of kelp in which a dead fish 

 was wound, which brought on a frenzy for food and 

 blood. A schooner was fishing near by, and as the 

 men hauled up fish, he would take them off, carrying 

 away the lines and filling his mouth with hooks to 

 which he paid little attention. Finally the fishing 

 stopped and he came to the surface some distance 

 off and seeing a dory anchored, swam up to it, then 

 circled around it. His appearance must have terri- 

 fied the man for he grasped an oar and struck at the 

 shark shouting for help. It was said later that the 

 shark deliberately tried to tip over the boat by rising 

 beneath it; but it is an historical fact that over a 

 dozen men and women on the schooner saw the man- 

 eater rush at the dory, rise over it amidships, saw the 

 unfortunate man waving his arms, then saw him 

 strike at the shark with the oar; but the man- 



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