Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-30
ANGLED FOR A SHARK
DuNNeRDALE's CREW HAD MUCH
SPORT ON A PERlLoUS VOYAGE.

They Baited Hook with Pork Monster
Bottle Noss Played with 1t Four Days
BEFORE He Bit-some Antarctic Expert
epces Where the Rigging Froze Solid.
The British bark Dunnerdale, which
has lust preached her cargo Of nitrate OF
soda at Erie basin, Brooklyn, also
brings into port store OF weird ana
strange tales Of the sea. The Dunner.
dale cabin is a museum illustrative Oh
the bark's adventures and decorated
with emus' eggs and deep sea and South
American curiosities.
The outward voyage from the Tyne
to Antofagasta, Chile, lasted 1870 days,
half of it being consumed in the trip to
Cape Horn. Forty-seven days were re-
CURED to weather the Horn Hurricanes
from the southwest and west pushed the
bark far to the southwark Of her course
into the climate of the Antarctic ocean,
The Dunnerdale is a good weather
craft and drove easily before the winter
gales, riding the Antarctic's pillows like
a lightship. Every detail of the bark S
rigging and equipment was frozen still.
Shrouds and stays threatened to give
way beneath the crushing weight. Snow
covered the decks in drifts, but the bark
still drove on before the white storm,
laughing at danger.
1t was intensely cold. The rudder
chains froze up aud had to be thaWed
out with hot water All hands had to
turn to and knock the ice off the sails
with hammers.
The Dunnerdale was forced 400 miles
ont of her course, into latitude 81 south
and longitude Go west. Three times she
was driven off the Horn After 40 days
of this sort Of experience Captain Green
halgh found himself only trifie to the
southwark of where he had been at the
beginning
On the voyage from Pisagua to New
York Captain Greenhalgh, Mrs. Green
halgll and the crew had fun with sharks
The captain has a walking stick made
from the backbone of shovel nosed
shark that was hooked over the bark $
side. Sharks fins. teeth and yertebre
are plentiful on the Dunnerda1e.
For four days from April 3 bottle
nosed shark sneaked in the bark wake.
1t Is sure bad luck not to land a shark
that tags ship Every endeayor was
made to tempt the sea monster to take
the bait, but it was wary shark and
fought shy of the pork baited hook.
In a dead calm on Friday, April 10,
in latitude 90 north and longitude "
west, the captain and Mrs. Greenhalgh
and the eff watch were all on the poop
deck trying to lure the bottle nose from
the Atlantic With its dorsal fin out of
water, it swan lazily and warily about,
now and then rolling slowly over and
taking the chunk of pork between its
man eating jaws. With the bait in its
teeth, the shark was hauled three times
out of water, only 10 let go and drop
back. Each time it swan away. cireled
the bark and returned.
The hook stuck fast the fourth time
1t required the united strength Of the
two watches, ten able seamen and three
apprentices to haul his sharkship aboard.
1t was necessary to slip three bowlines
around his body in order to get a proper
purchase ON the dead weight.
The shark weighed 500 pounds and
measured IL feet inches from nose to
tip Of tail. There were seven rows of
brutal, saw edge teeth The shark had
been hungry, for in the stomach were
only fish and lump Of pork.-New
York World.