THR SHARK* 



In oH^Il times sharks were coiisideriid to be 

 allied t0AfkL^?iatia©s of the deegpj mii0xt:ie4 

 thm, $& tlug present wim^eAt to p&s^ 

 ^^ilg^ers travcrsiun" tlie ocean. The following 

 arcouiit of tlio cnptun^ of one of these voracious 

 auiiiialSj from i)r. Frj-er's '* New Account of 

 India Aiid Persia," published H 16S^» Is 

 antttsittf 



" Two of the lesser offspring of the great Lc- 

 rinthan (the weather heinc^ calm, thesi^ sort of 

 them c]>e not visible, being of no swift motion) 

 came sailing after us ; onr men, as eager of 

 itea aa ^ey ©f tTieii* prey, hast^^ flieip 

 ^aus far to. take them ; which no sooner in tlie 

 water but each of them, gnidetl by some half-a- 

 dozen delicately-coloured little fishes, which, for 

 their own safeguai'd^ perform tlie oJiice of pilots, 



(they wm diferiag to sftdsf j tlteiif Imager m 

 th^Kt) wlio them ta ba&i ipfhea they, 



turning- their bellies up, seize upon them on their 

 haeks, liook tlmmseh es in the toils, beatino- the 

 sea into a Ijrcach, and not without a great many 

 hands are drawn ovet th6 sides 6f the ship ; 



the large lake Vaihiria was the ventricles or gills ; wliilc the 

 lofty Orehena, the highest mountain in the islimd, piohaltly 

 six or seven thousand ieet above the sea, was regarded as its 

 dorsal fin ; and its ventral fin was jMatavai," — £lUs's Pol^- 

 nesiftti MesMrc/m, vol. i. page .1 67^ 



