THE SHATIK* 



which seen by the pf)or silly little fishes, (as 

 conscious of their error,) they swim to and again, 

 mi. hardly forsake the iihip ; hit hx0g within 

 board, tlie s]ii[j's coiii])!niy, anived "wMtliatdiets, 

 pveseiitly ilivide the sj)(uL They arc not scaly, 

 and thorcibre imagined to be a kind of whaK^, 

 being finned like tlieni, with a great lin on tbciv 

 backSj neat* their taibj (wKdi feedj is used in- 

 stcjul f)f a slate,) dP a darltKh-grey colonr on 

 their bricks, lighter on their sides, and white 

 under their hellies ; their snont on the same 

 plain with their months, but their month within 

 tiiat a way ^ tlii& <iaJ«^ ^wkf ikef turn tbeis? 

 h^J^w when they tsk^ thdt |>rey. Th& m&uih 

 of one of them extended, is two spans wide, 

 armed withiji witli throe tier of sharp-pointed 

 teeth on botli jaws, so piercing tliat needles ex- 

 them not, and of sneh straxigth ilmi a I«g 

 or iOEt am, bone atid h \mt easy morsel ; 

 wherefore called sltarh hy the seamen, on whom 

 they are hold enongh to histen and dismeiohrr, 

 if not shnnned, when they wash themst lves. 

 They are of a rank smell, and not good to eat 

 but by stout ^^mmbs i ^ lengtli tliey mm ten^ 

 sometimes ^mi^h&L*^ 



I shall now .laidke a few ohser\ations on 

 mnscnhir irritability, as cxi'iiijtlilicd hy the 

 sliark. That which is toxnned musenlur irrita- 



