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happy bathers, tearing and butchering one after another, 

 nor leave the spot, though wearied and gorged, whilst 

 there remained room in her inside to pouch another 

 victim. 



Et lassata viris, nondiim satiata, recessit. 



Well, indeed, do these 'fell, unhappie, and shrewd 

 monsters,' as Pliny calls them, deserve the ill names be- 

 stowed by man : — Lamia, the fury, witch, or hobgoblin ; 

 anthropophagus, or man-eater ; and requin, so called in 

 anticipation of the requiems* which may certainly be 

 offered up by friends for the soul of any one whose body 

 comes in the way of a shark. In attacking the whale, a 

 favourite pastime with several sharks of dimension, the 

 cercharias requires and exhibits all his metal : ' tautot 

 la baleine sort sa queue, qui semble etre un vaisseau sur 

 lequel le soleil se reflechit comma sur la glace d'un mi- 

 roir ; bientot eUe la laisse reployer avec foreur sur son 

 ennemi, bat Tonde avec violence, et la fait elever en gros 

 bouillons. La baleine est alors toute en furie; elle le 

 manifesto tant par la maniere dont elle flotte et s'agite, 

 que par un mugissement rauque qu'eUe fait entendre jus- 

 qu'li milieu de la plage.'f 



The white shark is one of the largest of the tribe, 

 weighing often as much as a thousand pounds, and 

 stretching from twenty-five to thirty feet ; there is how- 

 ever another, the S. maximus, which when full sized ge- 

 nerally exceeds these dimensions, reaching a measure- 

 ment of not less than forty feet : one of the former, cap- 

 tured off Marseilles, was found to contain an undigested 

 warrior, cased in his mail, 'integer et cadavere toto.' 



* Lao^pfede derives this word very fanoiFuUy from an ancient 

 GotMo root rich, ' lequel,' says he, ' signifle fort, puissant, et dont 

 on a form^ depuis le mot riche, paroe qu'a mesure que la soci^t^ 

 g'est depravee, nos ancStres se sont aper9us que les richesses et 

 force ou puissance devenaient malheureusement des synonymes.' 



t Mem. Phil. Hist, sur I'Am^rique, par Don Ulloa. 



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