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CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
the piscatorial bill of fare, as shown by 
my experience, has been an extremely 
varied one. 
While off the shore in the harbor one 
afternoon I caught a shark measuring a 
little over six feet in length, which gave 
me a tussle of about a quarter of an hour 
before I could pull it alongside and 
plunge a knife into its heart. This last 
operation, be it observed, was not so 
much to end its own sufferings as to pre¬ 
vent those of other and better fish, and 
maybe a human being or so, in the near 
future. The natives told me, however, 
that it was only the large spotted or 
tiger shark, a species seldom seen there, 
that will deign to mistake the leg of a 
swimmer for the early worm that is 
caught by the bird. None of the shark 
kind enter the inner harbor where a sen- 
