St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-05-18
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ocean . lady's work box was found.
while in another the i1criminatory
papers which had been thrown away
BY . hotly-cha~~d SLAYER wers ~
covered from tho NAV Of IN involun-
tary witness thus curiously brought
into court ON the barb Of . pork-baited
hook. Ruysch. one Of the most trust
worthy Of the old nAturalists. a@rms
that . man in mail-homO 10, icatus.
he calls him-was found In the
stomach Of . white shark. and Il i
recorded by Blumenbach that In ono
case whole horse was found. II 70
undeniable that many have been killed
with ample capacity for such undesir-
able contents. and Basil Hall tells Of
one out of which Wa taken . whole
skin OF . buffalo. besides . host Of
other trines which had been dropped
astern In the course Of the previous
week.
We may. perhaps. exercise . large
amount Of judicious skepticism over
the tale Of the marine. on . sudden
lurch of the ship. tumbling overheard.
and being found two days afterward-
fixed bayonet and all-in the stomach
Of q captured carcharia But the
cases In which skeletons have been
recovered are too many 70 b doubted.
In the old times OF the contrahand
slave trade. when . cargo likely to
consign the captain to tho yardman
was mercilessly tossed into the sea.
and when pirates Of the Teach type
compelled their captives to walk tho
plank such grewsome memorials OF
mans inhumanity to man were terri
bly, frequent To this day even. In tho
Australian seas. the incautiOus swim
mer has moro than once been snapped
up. and 1t some Of tho antipodean
summer haunts it II dreadfully sug-
gestive to observe the pallisade Of
stakes around the bathing places. and.
still more. TO notice the ugly couute-
nances OF thu greedy ''terrors OF the
ocean" eagerly regarding the tempt
ing tid-bits on the other side Of the
fence. OF the many species Of shark
We have in the British seas-includ-
ing the dog fishes. which have al the
instincts OF their big relatives. though.
owing to their size. they xre not 20
powerful for evil-some seventeen.
among which tho terrible white
shark and the scarcely less ferocious
are numbered - rowing
members. Yet We can not recall .
case OF a serious mishap ever Detailing
any one from these wanderers from
more southern seas. The truth seems
to be that a. they approach our shores
the coldness of the water numbs their
senses. until. by the time the Arctic
ocean is reached. the only repres"nta-
tive of the family found there. though
ravenous enough after bluboer. y %
little endowed with the man eating
propensity Of its tropical cousins tAaa
the seamen "aeose' the whale within
. foot Of its nose. driving Il o6 With
iancee and boat-hooks. without any
dread Of it, ever nist.king their lsGs
for the oetacean's Aattened tanks. No
such liberty could be taken with the
white shark. It will follow boats for
days, and. as We have seen. has been
known to spring out Of the water 70
grasp it, intended victim There are.
indeed. grewsome stories Of tho Wild
rushes OF sharks to grasp the crew -
the ship went down. and Of the sur
vivors being snatched ono BY ono o6
the spars. hencoops and RATS on which
they had taken refuge. Yet. Elian
was we'll aware OF dangers which the
coral divers underwent
in their encounters with ''the mon
strous balance fsh Of ugly shspe."
which is easily recognized a. the ham
mer-head. or zygena. the audscity Of
which is vouched for By many credible
witnesses. and by incidents stu moro