The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-28

West Indian waters are filled with
the conirou white shark. Cu,harUs
N%ulRnris II i- said that the blue
hhnfk, tlHucus Is cher, ALSO. bot
never Saw amy OF th, species G
"id however 500 mHrN Hammer
headed sharks IyEucuu ~yulrurIs.
There.
Az ot che Uaumcr.h,ad mat 7
ever saw we're small not being moro
than about thrc, feet ut fD boz length.
To- shape they are exactly like amy
"lltDr shark save for thc curious
h"uW'f hcto caught some haIf
" dozen boz san Juan bay. with hook
and Tine 1llE 90 hook and line bait
ti'f boo landing Nshf Well. II YOU never
hnNo had the experience wait until
sou catch o. himmcr-hoadcd shark
boz thut way. and hen you win know
Whut % s Goo see o. fish fight. bnd
never seen or heard Of such % fish.
uhtl ON" night about N o'clock hen
] WINS fishing from "a boat in tho
hnrhor My hal was taken from th,
muddy bottom ~ the hnrbor. aud
such 90 violent jerk was given to my
line. that ] almost fcll out uf The boat.
When recovered my balance tho
tiEht began. Two hundred feet or
line went out ana cut the water like
the prov 81 q racing boat before I
got the fish turned Then ne fought
around Ia wide circles, diving al times
clear to the bottom Of the bay. After
a good ten minutes Of hard fight. l
began 20 see what I had hooked Al
iirst ! could not tell what IL was 20
violent Were his contoftions when ne
came 20 the surface. but az length
with the aid OF the gaff hook IN the
hands of "a companion / got him into
the boat and l was an aEtonishcd
citizen. In the dim starlight |
thought ! had caught "a fish that had
another fish in his mouth. because
ui this unnatural looking hammer
thht extends across his nose like the
inverted arm rest of "a cfutch. The
eyes 81 the fish are away out at tho
% OF this hammer on each side.
ana 80 its optics are farther apart
IMAM That Of any other living thing OF
equal size. After that during about
q year and "a half ] caught several
others, but they all we're OF about
b same size. They are n curious
fish and h witness of tho under
parts indicates hat they live In dark
waters and stay close to mud bot
toms which was where / always found
them.
But the big white sharks first men,
TONED are the ones had most ex-
perionce with. They range in alze
from about eight to fifteen feet or
even AS high as eighteen feet in
NnnmNh nNNLa o. a.. 1T -
the sea, and the ~scayongcrs Of the
shores Thcr bodies arc ono mass
~ compact muscles IL you can call
fish tissue by such "a name. They
are as solid and resilient az new In
dta rubber and thor skns are as
tough as tanned leather. and as
mooth m patent leather. The vi
ci"us wide convex mouth a. situated
underneath the head. aud about sew
en- or eight Inches back from what
would Doe tho point of the nose. Sew
eial rows Of sharp cross-Cut saw
teeth rim the laV from side 20 side.
80 - iE utterly imrossiblo for any
living thing they bite ever escaping
without great mutllation. / saw one
Of them one day bite the body of "a
dead pig We had thrown into the sen.
IN two and finish u On two bites Tho
pig was about three aud ID half feet
long, and would weigh probably cigh-
ty or ninety pounds. o. the north
side Of the city Of San Juan right on
tho seashore. below the great Span
lsh Qualifications, Is tho municipal
slaughter house. from which the
blood and offul drains into tho bin
Atlantic. So Il happens that an
around this slaughter house, aud tho
nearby Moro Castle are large mum
berS 81 sharks. ON cloudy days their
dorsal fin tho water On an di-
rcctions vieing with each other after
the floating offal from the gest abut-
tor. Proof absolute b. lacking as 10
whether they actually attack n kin
human beings, but every body thinks
they do. In and round the mouth
81 the bay % along the hign walls
cf Moro Castle. many boats have cap
sized. and never "a human who went
under has again been seen. but the
dreaded dorsIl fins have been seen
ln the vicinity Just about the time Of
the accident. Two Jackics from one
az the warships were crossing the bill
loWy mouth of the harbor one day Ia
"a small boat which o1psizcd and the
men were never seen again but "a few
uaNs later % soldier on the high walls
az tho castle looking down In tho
clear deep water beneath him. saw an
enormous shark, which he shot Next