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Title: Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Platts, John, 1775-1837
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders
Publisher: New York :; World Pub. House
Contributing Library: Indiana University
Digitizing Sponsor: Indiana University

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whichpervaded every bosom in America, resolved, as soon as hearrived at some port, to release himself from the mortifying-state of employing his life against his country, which, as hesaid when dying, he was happy to lay cfown, as he could notemploy it against her enemies. He plunged into the water:the Pallas was a quarter of a mile from the shore. A sharkperceived him, and followed him very quietly, till he camenear the shore ; where, as he was hanging by a rope thatmoored a vessel to a wharf, scarcely out of his depth, theshark seized his right leg, stripped the flesh entirely from thebonr;, and took the foot off at the ancle. He still kept hishod, and called to the people in the vessel near him, whowere standing on the deck, and saw the affair. The sharkthen seized his other leg, which the man by his strugglingdisengaged from his teeth, but with the flesh cut throughdown to the bone, into a multitude of narrow slips. Thepeople in the vessel threw billets of wood into the water, and
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THE SHARK. 199 frightened the shark away. The young man was brought onshore. Dr. Mosely was called to him; but he had lost somuch blood before any assistance could be given him, that heexpired before the mangled limbs could be taken off. A fewweeks before this, a shark of twelve feet in length was caughtin the harbour; and on being opened, the entire head of aman was found in his stomach. The scalp and flesh of theface were macerated to a soft pulpy substance ; which, onbeing touched, separated entirely from the bones. The boneswere somewhat softened, and the sutures loosened.—(Moseleyon Tropical Diseases.) A very extraordinary instance of intrepidity and friendshipis given by M. Hughes, in his Natural History of Barbadoes.It happened about the end of Queen Annes wars, at Barba-does.—The sailors of the York Merchant, having venturedinto the sea to wash themselves, a large shark made towardsthem ; upon which they swam back, and all reached the boatexcept one, whom the monster overt

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