The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-28
THRILLING ADVENTURE
 WITH MAN-EATING SHARK

no spear or other weapon in the boat.
 The man-eater disappeared for a few minutes, and, congratulating myself on having got rid of such an ugly customer, l began to scent up the water, with the idea of attracting back the frightened school of auau. l had hardly started fish, ing again, however, when the big shark
 came to the surface a few feet from the
 boat, throwing its body half out of the water as if intent on swamping the craft. Had he hit the skiff he would assuredly have wrecked it. Luckily, the shark mis-. calculated it's distance and struck the
 water instead, causing a commotion which rocked my little craft violently.
 By this time I was thoroughly fright ened, for I recalled stories told me by natives of gigantic sharks whose habit it was to attack small boats until they
 succeeded in falling on them, and thus
 brought their occupants within reach of
 their voracious maws.
 Hastily pulling up my anchor I started to row to Kepo harbor a small channel in the reef, and nearly a mile nearer the shore than the main harbor Just then the shark made another great leap out of the water, landing on the surface with d terrific splash. He repeated this alarm ing maneuver several times, each time coming nearer, his object clearly being to fall on the boat.
 Thinking to pacify the monster I threw fish from my catch into the water, and the shark made for it almost instantly and devoured it. Taking advantage of the lull in the brute's activity, 1 made as much headway shoreward as possible
 but had not pulled many strokes before my assailant caught up with me, and, repeating it's former tactics,, while I pull ed for dear life, came within an ace of un- setting the boat. His great gleaming body rose from the water like a flash of light, to fall again with a resounding smack, driving great waves towards me, and l shuddered as I pictured my fate if he once succeeded in striking any part of the boat. Had the skiff not been very light so that 1 could more or less calcu. lat his next move and pull away, the
 boat would certainly have been swamped. l threw oyer another fish, and it was immediately grabbed by the shark, which was now swimming close alongside the
 boat. It did not rise from the water on this occasion, however, being probably
 tired out with it's former efforts. There was still considerable distance to be rowed before Kepo harbor was | reached, and I kept on throwing fish overheard whenever I saw the shark ap-
 preaching, which was matter of no diff l ticulty, owing to the clearness and calm ness of the water.
 l It was not long before I began to real ize that it was a question whether my fish supply would hold out until I reached the little harbor in the reef. If it didn't well, 1 felt my hair bristling at the very thought. In order to eke out my rapidly diminishing catch I cut the remaining [ fish in two and threw half an auau at d time to my unsuitable pursuer
 Despite this eXpedient, however, my stock was all gone before the harbor was
 cached, while the attitude of the man.
 eater was as threatening as ever.
 Directly the food supply stopped the shark, with uncanny intelligence, appar- ently realibed that he had been duped and that his intended victim was escap- i ing, for he promptly renewed his efforts
 10 swamp the boat, and he came terribly
 near being successful, for l was getting 1 exhausted from my hard pull, and less able to dodge his rushes. Had there been another quarter of a mile to travel l be- lieve that the brute would have got the best of me, for when l finally reached q place of safety I was completely played out.
 The great fish boldly followed me right into Kepo harbor until as shallow d depth as 10 feet of water was reached. Then, very reluctantly he retreated sea- ward
 There were times during the shark $ pursuit when I was well-nigh in despair, for I thought that the monster would , surely get me. Since then I have not been fishing in deep water off Honolulu unless in a heavy shore-boat and with com 1 pany.