The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-06
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HOW THEY WE'RE CAPTURED.
At such time the fishermen may have put
pf in their rude crafts and aided in its cap
Hre-peThaps fastening it with cables-iL
driving logs Of wood into its vulnerable parts
To capture such monsters by any other means
must have been impossible. The largest boats
would hardly have vithstood the struggles
chat must have ensured after an attempt at
capture by spear or harpoon. assuming even
that such weapons were known. Once en-
trapped iu shallow water we can imagine that
The sight must have been a striking one; the
enormous fish, far more active in this condi-
lion than a whale, beating the water with
blows of its powerful tail, making frantic and
mighty rushes this way and that. swapping
the great cables like threads. capsizing the
rude boats and spreading terror and destruc.
ZION eYerywhers.
A man TO one Of these mighty sharks would
De almost unnoticeable, and we can imagine
Lhat such a huge creature must have been
upon continual forage 10 appesse It's Rppe-
lite. moderate sized whale would have
oeen legitimate prey, as our ordinary man
Eaters Of today have been known to swallow
nearly an entire horse. At this time many
strange creatures thronged the ocean, and
doubtless animal life was made much more
prcfuse than at present
Any one who has seen a shark of large size
moving along beneath the surface can realize
he terror they produce il al observers.
EoDxEy EXPERIENCE.
The writer once hooked q SHARK about four
teen feet In length TIE brute was towing
the heavy boat at steamboat speed through
The water, my man cro1chIng In the stern,
which was high in air, while ] was engaged
At the bow, IN keeping ths line IN the notch.
slip from which would have tipped Us over.
We had rushed Up the cas-Ilel Tor about nsH
NILE a. tais pace, when / ehaBced % glance
overheard, aud there about ten feet from
the surface, were hA3 do5en man eaters q
the largest size swimming along, ksepInE GD
with Us, apparently detc-rntned 70 Sc what
became Of their friend TIE appearance q
tssse huge fishes moving along 80 swiftly and
With such little sIsr1zen had Al extremely :
inprsszon upon Eae-oDe tAat I
never fully recovered from. - ! have nsTsr
70 toysd sea bathing E1oe, even n Dcrthsra
Ea5srz Tie attendant ss1-ks / JDdgsd were
from ter 20 tdirta~n feet u ls1glG, Aad the
sEsct zize oS the monster that to~ed us Ne
never determined, as re SnAlly escaped By
breaking the rope
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