Big Game at Sea 



gripped tightly, the rows of gleaming teeth stood 

 erect for a moment, then the small expressionless 

 eyes convulsively turned inward, the pilot fishes darted 

 wildly about the dropping head and open gills, the 

 black and white remoras were along his tawny sides 

 hard and fast ; the man-eater was dead. 



In one of the great British museums is the mounted 

 and splendid specimen of a shark. The length is 

 given as twenty-five feet, and the card attached to it 

 states that it is an adult specimen of the white shark 

 or man-eater, Carcharodon. It was donated by the 

 officers of one of His Majesty's ships. It is a per- 

 fect specimen of this rare shark, if we except the 

 wound or notch on the dorsal fin. 



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