Queer Game 



some way broken the line, and, seeing its supposed 

 enemy, had, after the fashion of its kind, charged it, 

 so becoming the conqueror in the sea-fight." 



As remarkable a story as this appears to be, it is exceeded by an account given 

 by Colonel Nicholas Pike, late consul to Mauritius, who describes the leap of one 

 of these large swordfishes through the sail of a native boat. 



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