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I trust my readers will not think I have devoted too much time 

 and space to the Shark subject, if they do, my excuse is, that the mat- 

 ter has been much debated among anglers, and L have endeavored to 

 throw as much light on it as possible. 



I conclude that I, for one, am perfectly satisfied that many Sharks 

 have attacked many live men. 



Since writing the above my attention has been called to an article 

 in the Cliarleston News and Courier of August 29, 1901, on the man- 

 eating Shark subject, which I herewith quote. 



I am of the opinion, however, that a mistake is made in the 

 account of the Florida mail carrier's death. I was at Lake Worth at 

 the time the news came there, which was, that the carrier not arriving 

 on time, some people went out to look for him, and found his remains 

 at the inlet with the head and limbs bitten off. 



" It is a much mooted question as to whether or not there are 

 man-eating sharks in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is generally con- 

 ceded that the shark will devour the dead body of a human being, 

 but it has never been thoroughly and satisfactorily established that a 

 live person is liable to attack. The Rev. W. B. Yates, who, for 

 more than forty years, was a sailor's chaplain in this city, and who in 

 his youth had spent some years at sea, maintained that there were no 

 authentic instances of a man being eaten by a shark. The waters of 

 the Charleston harbor and the coast of South Carolina were as an 

 open book to him, and he went to his grave believing that sharks, in 

 this section, at least, were perfectly harmless. 



"Captain William C. Ferguson, of No. 10 Pinckney Street, yes- 

 terday, in speaking to a reporter for The News and Courier, gave out 

 some facts and figures to prove that there are man-eating sharks and 

 that many unfortunate persons have been killed and devoured by 

 these sea monsters. Captain Ferguson has collected some data relat- 

 ing to the question and arranged his facts in a chronological order. 

 He says : 



" ' In Charleston harbor, about 1840, as near as I can recall, one 

 of the crew of a pilot boat was accidently thrown overboard. The 

 boat was lowering her sails and coming up to her wharf at the time. 

 The two men pulling a skiff to his rescue were passed by a large 

 shark, which took the man under, and he was not seen again. The 

 morning paper noted that the man was treading water lightly with his 

 chest out. The shark was said to be twenty -five feet long. 



