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Show i VESSEL DELAYED BY SHARKS H j I f' For Twenty Says Sailors Saw Noth- H ( i Ing but the Monsters All H I i About Them. I . When a ship la bruught to a standstill H , I (or 24 hours by a school or shurks that H ' extends In all directions to the horizon HHHJ and when thu vessel sulls (or tho next H 20 dnys nmld nothing but sharks It Is H ' said by old. salts that It promises to bo i i a good season for Ashing. Buys tho Phil- indelphla Inquirer. This Is the story brought to Philadelphia Philadel-phia by tho captain of the American hhh ship Uabcock, front San Francisco, with B a cargo of scrap Iron. In fact, the cap- tain hints at a tragedy, for, according B to his story, the myriad of sharks left B him In pursuit of another vessel. H The Uabcock sailed from San Krancts- HHHJ co November 24. When In latitude 6.25 j j north, longltudo 29 west, on December H I 10, tho crew became worried at tho j ' scores of sharks wlikh began following , tho vessel. During tho night the crew H I heard nn awful splashing abc"t the ship H I nnd with the morning light 1.11110 tho H revelation that tho ocean tin far as tho H eye could see was covered with sharks. H Tho breeze fell off nnd what remained 1 was not sufficient to send the vessel H through the mass offish. A strong wind H came after the vessel had been stranded H nmld the shnrks for 24 hours and slow HHHJ headway was possible. The captain H denies, that the shnrlts tried to reach tho HHHJ ' deck ly climbing upon the barks of one HHHJ H For 20 days the sailors could oth- BHHJ Ing but sharks. They wsro hind reds' of HHHJ miles from any land end w-n getting BHHJ thoroughly frightened, when nlonq; BHHJ comes another vessel. The sharks saw HBBJ that (o new comer hp"11 the most men HHHJ aboard and nil went off In ler trail, so H ' that when New Year's dny ijnwned tho H crew of the Bnbcotk again snw n elenr HHHJ |