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Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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fish weighing half a ton,especially when it is armed with a formidable sword. Along the coasts of Sicily and Italy the swordfish is plentiful, and it isregularly hunted by the fishermen in much the same manner as described.In Algeria the swordfish is harpooned and the line dragged to the shore andthe fish hauled up on the beach; but this entails a lot of needless work. The color of the swordfish is a beautiful dark steel blue, changing toalmost a lemon color under the belly. Its skin is tough and smooth, and theeye is large and brilliantly colored, red or orange. Its whole build suggestsa fish capable of swimming at tremendous speed, which is often does, as anyone can testify who has seen it at home in the ocean. Sometimes a Sword fish is caught far inland on the great riversThe fish belongs to the sea but it sometimes takes a fresh water trip out ofcuriosity and if it happens to be the season when the salmon are going upstream it will follow them as long as the water is deep enough.
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SHARKS ATTACKING A DIVER. AN ADVENTURE WITH A SHARK Some years ago a ship was lost off the coast of Jamaica in the WestIndies. At the time she had a large sum of money on board which was onits way to Europe. The ship had foundered in a hurricane, but, as luckwould have it, not in very deep water. The bankers, to whom the money belonged, were anxious to recover it,and for this purpose employed a skilled diver. He went down to Jamaicaand after making an examination of the spot put on his diving clothes anddescended. He found that the safe which contained the money had brokenaway from its fastenings and was therefore easy to raise. Ropes werefastened around it and it was safely hauled into the boat. The diver thenwent down a second time to see if there was anything else of value lyingabout that could be recovered. While he was moving along the bottom he saw a great shadow flit past.On looking in the direction he beheld two large sharks watching him. One ofthem, the larger, seemed more an

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