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Show SHARKS AND DEAD WHALE. All AuxiouB for a Ulte of the Hugo Carcass. The presence of any large quantity of easily obtainable food is always sufficient suf-ficient to secure the undivided attention atten-tion of the shark tribe, says the National Na-tional Review. When "cutting in" whales at sea I have often been amazed at the incredible numbers of these creatures that gather in a short space of time, attracted by some mysterious means from heaven only knows what remote distances. It has often occurred oc-curred to us, when whaling in the neighborhood of New Zealand, to get a sperm whale alongside without a sign of a shark below or a bird above. Within an hour from the time of our securing the vast mass of flesh in the ship the whole area within at least an acre has been alive with a seething multitude of sharks, while from every quarter came drifting silently an Incalculable In-calculable host of sea birds, converting convert-ing the blue surface of the sea into the semblance of a plain of new fallen snow. The body of a whale before an incision is made in the blubber presents pre-sents a smooth, rounded surface, almost al-most as hard as India rubber, with apparently ap-parently no spot where any daring eater could find loolhhold. Hut, oblivious obliv-ious of all else save that internal anguish an-guish of desire, the ravening sea-wolves sea-wolves silently writhed in the density of their hordes for a place at the bounteous feast. Occasionally one preeminent pre-eminent among hi-s fellows for enterprise enter-prise would actually set his lower jaw against the black roundness of the mighty carcass and, with a steady sinuous thrust of his lithe tail, gouge out therefrom a mass of a hundredweight hundred-weight or so. If he. manager, to get away with it. the space left presented a curious corrugated hollow, where the serrated triangular teeth had worried their way through the tenacicus biib-stance, biib-stance, telling plainly what -rigorous force must have been behind them. But it was seldom Hint we permitted such premature toll to be takei of our spoil. The harpooners and officers from their lofty position on Hie cutting stage slew scores upon scores by simply sim-ply dropping their k'-en-wlged blubber spades upon the soft crowns of the struggling fish, the only place where a shark is vulnerable to in.-tarit death. The weapon sinks into the creature's brain, he gives a convulsive writhe or two, releases his hold and slowly sinks, followed in his descent by a knot of his immediate neighbors, all anxious to provide him with prompt sepulture within their own yearning mawg |