The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-08

dlmly see huge brown body. Below the
cold, cruel eyes were traced the outlines of
tormable mouth, that, even as we looked,
opened slowly, disclosing row upon row Of
strongly hooked, pearly white teeth, with
deeply serrated edges. As this frightful
mouth opened the monster rolled half over
and viciously snapped at bundle of food
sinking near him. 1t was the niuhi, the
nercest and most voracious of his tribe, and
as he moved along the crowd of fish darted
away in terror. Even the great white shark
sullenly gave place to this tiger of the sea,
who swan slowly about, swallowing the
food the fishermen kept throwing to him.
As he thus moved from place to place his
whole body seemed to exhale a peculiar
light that streamed from the tip of his
fins and long, unevenly lobed tail. By the
gleam OF this peculiar phosphorescence his
motion could be closely watched, and finally
the experienced fisherman saw that he was
becoming gorged So intent had we been
watching his movements that we had not
noticed that while he was being fed the
fleet of canoes had been silently moved in
near the shore. Now, looking down, we
could dimly see the white sandy bottom,
and in few minutes were in quite shallow
water, opposite an opening in the reef,
where the surf did not break Our pro-
gress had been very slow, and now for
awhile the canoes halted, while lowering
beneath them was the man-eater, evil
IDENTIFY somewhat stupefied by the ava he
had swallowed with the food so freely given
him.
The old Kahuna had. during the whole
performance, kept up his pantomimic dis
play, though in a guarded, quiet manner,
while the fishermen kept close watch upon
the shark. He gorged to repletion, evil
IDENTIFY intended to take a nap, and so
settled slowly down on the sandy bot
tom he was the perfect Submarine pic
ture of overfed helplessness, and it seemed
as though we could almost hear him
snore
And then commenced a curious exhibition
of skill aud daring A moose had been made
IN the end OF long, strong rope, and this
was taken by an inexperienced old fisherman,
who quietly slid overheard from his canoe
and allowed himself to sink to where the
man-eater was resting, his body enveloped
In that strange weird light. That was the
moment when, if the shark had been sham
ming 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 infinite dexterity and skill the native
succeeded in passing the moose over the
brutes head and about his middle. He then
quickly rose to the surface and clambered
into the canoe, and the feet 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. Some
times the shark would be a little FESTIVE,
and then we all waited until" as the doc
tor said, "he 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 daylight. The two re-
naming ones lay over the sleeping niuhi
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 then, but
this the Kahuna forbade.
I'VE have the righf to snare the man
eater in the night while he is drunk" he
said, "but we must wait for daylight, when
he is sober, before we kill him"
By daylight a crowd of people had as
sembled on the beach, and the signal was
given from the canoes that the niuhi was
awake and getting FESTIVE. So the long
line was seized by a hundred hands; it
Strengthened out, and then amidst the
triumphant song of the K1huna (who took
immense credit to himself for the capture)
and the yells and laughter of the crowd
tramping away with the rope the enraged
man eater, thrashing and plunging about,
was drawn out of the water and over the
yellow sands. AS his huge body plunged
hither and thither he snapped savagely at
everything but in vain. A crowd of the
fishermen were always about him, raining
a shower of blows on his ugly head, until he
lay, beaten to death, on the shore.
Great were the rejoicingS over the sue
cess of this hunt for the niuhi. Every por-
ton of The body (which was over IS feet in
lauotbA tbe ho1ae NJ
skin especially-are supposed to endow the
eater with high courage and great strength
As for the one who slipped the moose over
the head of the mau-eater, he was given an
extra portion of the liver, was extrava-
gantly praised for his skill, and would, the
Kahuna said, be fortunate in everything he
undertook thereafter.