St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-26

lie near MN. 1t was the ElEt,1, the ferC
ID est and most voracious of his tribe, an,
lie as he moved along the crowd of fisl
,r darted away in terror. Even the grea
If white shark snllenly gave place to th
e tiger of the sea, who swan slowly abou
s swallowing the food the fishermen KEEP
e throwing to him. AS he thus moved
g from place to place his whole body
r seemed to exhale peculiar light. thai
Il stleamed from the tips of his fins and
g long unevenly lobed tail. By the CLEAN
/. OF this peculiar phosphorescence his
g motion could be closely watched, and
e finally the experienced fishermen saw
that he was becoming gorged. So in
tent had we been watching his move
: ments that we had not noticed that
while he was being fed the fleet of ca
noes had been silently moved in nearer
the shore. Now, looking down, we
could dimly see the white, sandy bot
tom, and in few minutes were in quite
shallow water, opposite an opening in
the reef where the surf did not break.
Our progress had been very slow, and
now for a while the canoes halted,
while lowering beneath them was the
man-eater, evidently somewhat stupe-
fed by the ava he had swallowed with
the food so freely given him.
The old Kahuna had, during the
whole performance kept up his panto-
mimic display, though in a guarded,
quiet manner, while the fishermen kept
close watch upon the shark. He gorg-
ed to repletion, evidently intended to
take nap, and so settled slowly down
on the white sandy bottom. He was
the perfect (sub-marine) picture of
overfed helplessness, and it seemed as
though We could almost hear him snore.
And then commenced curious ex-
hibition of skill and daring. A moose
| had been made in the end of q long,
strong rope, and this was taken by an
experienced old fisherman who quietly
slid overheard from his canoe and al
lowed himself to sink to where the man.
eater was resting. his body enveloped
i'll that strange weird light. That was
the moment when, if the shark had |
been shamming Sleep he would with
one vigorous sweep of his tail and
snap of his jaws have earned his name |
OF ''man-eater. But no; he was for
the time being powerless, and with in
finite dexterity and skill the native
succeeded in passing the moose over
the brute's head and about his middle.
He then quickly rose to the surface and
clambered into his canoe, and the fleet
was again set in motion. The canoe
to which the line about the sharks
body was attached moved very slowly
and carefully, just enough strain being
kept on the line to raise the captive's
body clear of the bottom Sometimes
the shark would be a little FESTIVE, and
then we all waited "until," as the doc
tor said, she rolled over and went to
sleep again"
At length we were close in to the
beach and all but two canoes were
drawn up on the sands to wait for day.
light. The two remaining ones lay
over the sleeping llfuhi, the end of the
line to which he was secured being
taken on the beach, and then all hands
took turns in watching and sleeping. ,
The job might have been completed !
that night, but this the Kahuna for
babe.
1--WE have the rightto snare the man.
eater in the night, while he is drunk"
lie said, "but we must wait for day. {
light, when he is sober, before we kill
lim"
BY daylight crowd of people had ;
assembled on the beach, and the signal r
vas given from the canoes that the | q
liuhi was awake and getting FESTIVE. =
80 the long line was seized by a hun .
lred hands; it Strengthened out, and =
hen. amidst the triumphant song of u
he KahunA (who took immense credit S
o himself for the capture) and the
ellis and laughter of the crowd tramp p
ng away with the rope. the enraged g
thrashing and plunging =
bout, was drawn out of the water and f
yer the yellow sands. As his huge Il
ody plunged hither and thither he
mapped sava5ely at every thing, but \,
4 vain. A cts'wd of the fishermen were q Z,
ways about MIN, raining shower of II
lows on his ugly head, until he lay, p
eaten to death, on the shore. Il
Great were the rejoicings over the
access OF this hunt for the niuhi.
very portion of the body (Which was p"
yer eighteen feet in lengthy was eaten,
n 1.-THE bones and skin especially
re supposed to endow the eater with
gh courage and great strength. AS
II the one who slipped the moose over
le head of the man-eater, he was
wen an extra portion of the liver, r
as extravagantly praised forhis skill,
Id would, the Kahuna said, be FORTUNE
e in every thing he undertook there
ter Fl L. Clarke, IN San francisco
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