Giant Fish of Florida 
fifteen feet long. If you catch a great leopard shark, or man- 
eater (Carcharodon carcharias), the white belly of which is 
seen in the photograph facing the following page, it may be 
worth while ripping him up to see whether there are any boots 
within, or perchance even more personal signs of human 
occupation. In one of these a sea-lion weighing 100 lb. was 
once found on the California coast, but you will be far more 
likely to come across a quantity of horseshoe crabs. 
From this last shark figured we took three or four young 
ones, quite ready to swim away if they had been given the 
chance. They were not, for it is no part of humaneness to 
spare sharks. 
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