Encounter With a Shark.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 February 1875, Page 2

Encounter With a Shark.

♦ . V. Fatal as the white^shark'is '^6 ffie unarmed, thqse* ■who ! ,j3arr,y, weapons of defence very frequently ' cope with and master him ~f even' woman/ untested by ; thmr ; teeth/have been -known' to r stab akd destroy them-. in- -their; bath.! One -day* a -little boy about eight years* old vhappenedtOjbe washed from a catamaran. . which, was managed'by his Tather,' who rwakftius isarly i"nitiatihg c him* into the hardships of thie* mode ; of life r - which he iriteaded him to pursue.; and .'before :h& : could he, rescued^from .*-. the turbulent water, .a shark. drew-. him, under, and' lie ; W.as;,seen ■ .no,, more. I'he father ' lost ..not.a moment, but. calmly rose^ arid placing .between his" tee&YlaVge ; khife which : h ; e carried 'shehthgd in ,r his '■■ shm-mer-'biind; plirtriged : beh'eath thevlashihg waves.' : -He' disappeared- for;; some time, but after* awhile was; occasionally, seen to rise, and: then diye upder thef v tyl;lows,,as if. actually .engaged! with his* ..formidable, foe. A fbei\ "awhile the white foam "was visibly ffnged %ith blood, which wafe;viewed-with-asensa-tiori of horror by those-'whb could .* only surmise what was going* oh; underline '-water-/- The *m*anf was-jiag , ajtt :; ;seen..:to rise and: disappear, $o .that.^evWork of , death was evidently ;^nof * yeV!cpmpl6*te. ■ After s.o.me i further ; tyh'^'Kad r "eiapseH, to the astonishment ; of "all' '-vSht) -*wßre-* assembled oh fife' beach-^-for-'ai-cdfisiderable crowdlhad now; collected — the body of a huge shark was seen for a few moments" above the. white s^pray, which it crimsoii6di ahd <*then ' disapipearedk ~&n^ f ins^t>^fisr^lißT^n7rose 'above' the suYf"a%d'iha"dVfofr th*^ He seemed..fnearly]e**di>a«sted, but-trad .not a single mark-^n fcis body, which " ! bbW ntf^v^deh^'-^hat^ver^of'the.rperi- [ '4dua<bbMifet in which he /had->heenoj3o recently-.engaged. f c He r had .-scarcely landed, when an immense^ shkr^' 1 whs "cM'xiptiS'-th'e beach'frf thfe : bi%ws.l It was*-' quite 1 deadj-and,-? was^immediately . 4ragge4 by tfr e ; assembled:, natives" beyond the reach of the surT.. u^'^Sdn-as the-shark was -drawn ibfli^lace of security it was opened, when^h-e head and'limbs ofthe boy were-M^n from his7\ stomach:. ; The;;bpdf^*% pletly dismembered, and th^fie^dievered from it, but hone >oftherpMrweres mutilated. — 'Castle's- Popular r ; Natural . History .' *^ ; . -'