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sucker at the hend £ of an inch in diameter, and one of half 
the size on the tail. I t is easy to imagine what an instrument 
ol torture they must he, and as one is very young they would 
seem to live and multiply in the mouth. 
“My next Shark was specimen of the Hammer head or 
true Zj/ffcena Malleus which is L believe very rarely caught in 
this harbour. It is a very young specimen which 1 suspect ac- 
counts for its being taken so near before the shore. It is 
only about 24 inches long, the first I ever saw so small. The 
colour when fresh was a silvery grey with a pinkish tinge, 
very soft and shiny on the back. All the fins except the 1st 
Dorsal have an ochreous tinge ; the belly and under part of 
the head are white, and on the top of the 1st Dorsal and up- 
per lobe of Caudal, is a nearly black line. When the head is 
perfectly in profile the full eye cannot be seen. Its range of 
vision must be very great, as when one end of the hammer is 
down the other is up, so that it can see in all directions at 
once. It is described by some writers as having fiery red eyes, 
but the iris is of a pale yellow. The surrounding lobes are of 
a pink colour which may possibly become red when the 
( feature is angry. These lobes do not stand out beyond the 
head as most drawings shew them, and the curves of the head 
are different, it being more like a mallet than a hammer. 
“ ft has minute scales ail over, and on the neck is a semi 
circular double row of pores. On the under side of the head, 
small pores are thinly scattered over it just visible to the naked 
eye, but when examined with a glass, the interspaces are seen 
filed with still smaller pores. The nostrils, situated near the 
eyes have a groove running from them for about an inch along 
the front of the head! which is undulating. This is said to be 
the most ferocious of all the sharks, and from the appearance 
of the teeth even in this young specimen, they must be ter- 
rible weapons when fully developed. Both jaws have a row 
of lance shaped teeth in front, in a group, facing in all direc- 
tions, those beyond turned inwards. They are so sharp as 
to cut the finger with a touch like a razor, as I know from 
experience. 
“ I have a specimen of a small male Shark called here 
“ Requin Malais,” measuring 4 feet 9 inches, and which is, I 
presume, a young fish as others of its genus have been taken 
over 12 feet long. It is of the family Nolidanidos , genus No- 
tulanus, very near, if not the A r . Indicus (Cuv. Begne Ani- 
mal) which is said to range from the Cape seas to California. 
It has only one dorsal and that placed opposite the space be- 
tween the ventral and anal fins, no pit at the root of the cau- 
