The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-14

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 fercely, tasting the flesh of his vie
 tim. When the ray became passive h.
 swung it, gripped it again. and bear
 ing down upon it, tore and lacerater
 it, striking down the weed with power.
 full blows of his tail, sending the crav.
 fishes dashing across the submarine
 mesa.
 Engaged in this fierce attack, the
 man-eater was suddenly struck
 knocked aside by sand-shark twice
 his size; but he circled about with
 savage menace, retreating only when
 fairly put to flight by his opponent
 Every night now he foraged, learnins
 that nearly all animals feed at night
 in this land of plenty. In all his wan
 derings the man eater never exhibited
 any interest in certain locality: he
 never returned to the same place
 twice. He had no sense of location.
 no mental action, that gave him an in-
 terest in locality sufficient to pro- duce a desire to, return, no memory
 beyond that which blood produced. He
 slept or rested when he grew weary,
 and often swam continuously for
 days; at times at the surface, when his fin would make broad showing above the water, cutting it like a
 knife. He swam on eternally on, but generally in eircle-an instinctive movement, which kept him near the lagoon.
 At the end of three years the man.
 eater was six feet in length. He had increased prodigiously in bulk, was especially heavy just behind the head, which was enormous and threatening When his jaws gaped, as they some times did to throw out some parasite, an array of teeth would be seen, the front row upright, pure white, larger than a mans thumb nail and perfect triangles, their edges like saws. Back of these were 10 or 12 rows of sinni- lar teeth lying flat in the mouth, un- suspected, but called into action when blood was tasted and some victim at- tempted to. escape; then all these fierce knives sprang erect and sank into the flesh of the enemy, making escape impossible.
 The shark had changed in many essentials. He was lighter in color, nearly white beneath; the 1.-the and cap able of remarkable power: but the eyes now appeared smaller and were 1T anything, more inexpressive, and gray. The motion was iignified. vet there was the same peculiar swing given by the tail. and when he wished to turn the massive head was jerked slightly in the given direction and the tail swung to meet it. He had now sereval boon companions. Three or four remoras had joined partnership With him, fishes about foot in length black, with peculiar sucker on the top of the head. When weary of fol- lowing the shark they merely attached themselves by the sucker to his back were several little striped pilot fishes, which hid beneath the sharks head, They were very curious and darted out at every strange object that appeared.
 The man-eater at this time had de- ,eioped remarkable, power of scent. dead animal half a mile away could 'e traced up the wind or current with marvellous quickness and fidelity. His 'lah when scent was found was to 'eat up against tile wind, swimlnins With greaet rapidity, turning the in- tant it was lost, and as this was al- Vays on the surface, with his biz .orsai fin out of water, he was not a leasing sight to men in a boat who lad left their fish hanging overheard. ne spectacle of a. shark of extraordi- ary bulk darting about in si cratic
 manner was taken by some as men, cling, and they resented it in various yays. 4
 It is not to be supposed that he had aimed any idea of locality. He aunted this region merely because he | ad certain limitations. He swan orth until the water lost the temper- l tura which suited his nature best. | nd to the south until it grew too 'arm. A certain skipper of a steaaer mich sailed from a northern port | Ighted the shark early in 1861 off arysfoot Light, the shark following 1e steamer for several hours, his dor al fin high above water, crossing and ecrossing the steamers wake in a. eculiaMy rapid manner. For three onsecutive trips the shark was ob- erved, and then one of the passengers red at him, cutting notch out of his dorsai fin, by which the shark as known for years nearly always elng sighted in a 15-mile run from ape Florida to Havana. The shark as named Old Bill, and there was not
 superstitious sailor on the run who ad not taken shot at him or att 'mped to capture him.
 The man-eater could not be in- lced to take a baited hook. and if as believed by many of the men that followed the vessel waiting for a reck; and when a certain shin dis own with all on board in the Florida opeared in a herricane and when traits, it was said that Old Bill went 'Wn with her. In any event, he dis opeared for months. He was now IS ct long, of enormous bulk. He rely went north of Hatteras and len only in summer, when he fol- wed the shad schools north, making e turn at Long Island in June and e coast of Maine some time late
 summer. His habits had changed. e preyed upon dead animals, and come a scavenger, and would follow
 callte ship half way across the can to feed upon dead steer. He 'peared to be too heavy to run down
 horse mackerel, and the smaller hes evaded him altogether, though casionally he found q school of a nltarnl s1lrrnundnd l,,r n 1L ,