Bize, 
fb WHITE SHARK Cham 
** With the anal fin. 
IV... Rhee W HTL ES Ake 
Nauia ? Arift. Hif. an. lib. Vs 
bs Ga 1X Gig 7 
Adpvn. Oppian Halieut. 1. 370. 
v. 36. 
Kaoxaeias Kuwy. Athen. lib. 
Vil. p. 310. 
Lamia ? Plinii Lb. ix. ¢. 24. 
Le chien carcharien ou Perlz 
fifch de Norvege. Belon. 52. 
37. 
Lamia. Tiburo. Rondel. 429. 
390. j 
Canis Carcharias. Ge/uer pifc. 
173. 
White Shark. Wil. Icth. 47. 
Raitfyn. pife. 18. 
Squalus carcharias. Sq. dorfo 
plano dentibus ferratis. Lzz. 
Sift. 400. 
Arted. fynon.89. Gronov. Zooph. 
No. 143. 
HIS grows to a very great bulk, Gilius fays, 
to the weight of four thoufand pounds; and 
that in the belly of one was found a human corps 
entire, which is far from incredible, confidering 
their vaft greedinefs after human flefh. 
They are the dread of the failors in all hot cli. 
mates, where they conftantly attend the fhips in ex- 
pectation of what may drop overboard; a man that 
has that misfortune perifhes without redemption : 
they have been feen to dart at him, like gudgeons to 
aworm. A mafter of a Guinea fhip informed me, 
that a rage of fuicide prevailed among his new 
bought flaves, from a notion the unhappy creatures 
had, that after death they fhould be reftored again to 
their families, friends, and country. To convince 
them at left that they fhould not re-animate their 
bodies, he ordered one of their corpfes to be tied by 
the 
