SHARK-BAIT.
NATIVE AND 20-POOTEE.
human shark-bait on the-
coast of V Australia. The 3 : |iiahbrm!an is bait, too. v.
||S||Whlist r<Ba six-months' cruise in on the eloop J natives, ! between a big Bhatk j native chief {says the ! said they were fishing for ||fehw3ci,fMd had ; caught" aereral when 6hal 1 k, ,, 20 feet long He nosed all their baits butprefusbd to. fasten his : w^.''/■':■■ . |;|Bhark' attacked'the native, making for dived,- and. f tho men of pfthe^Qbrawum:conld see nia dusky' form the /shark. - Then their by" thick crouds of i the dusky' Mra^oe^&lpjrt,vhisheadlr bobbed up .th<s; bloodjwreatlied in smiles. belly with ;bbneii; ,~ : ,-<-,,. lf|gs&bther was that of ■ ; : to where the sloop was pjs^bii^J ? Jwb';mileßi'distant.,\-.- '.■•'■' : of />ther natives he left fc|thb'; ahorb ; for ;she long swim. Through >hble performance waa from;'the <3eranium. With a colored only ten were left in the none save the herb entered p(ia|pivthe jlaat: half-mile. He refused to come"on board, a plug to him by one gf?i%^-;men,.aridvgtutb- contented he the aide of the .sloop aa a kicking struck out for shore.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17627, 2 December 1922, Page 20
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172SHARK-BAIT. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17627, 2 December 1922, Page 20
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