for about two minutes when he became quite still. 1 worked the Tauneh right over him as he was very deep' down, and in doing so T had got in a considerable amount of line, T started to heave him up a foot or two at a time, and at last, the men sighted him. They got excited, shouting "ti maru" or something like it, X, said it couldn't be $0 T asked what "ti maru" was, and he said the natives say it is a shark, Anyhow, T soon saw him myself, and sure enough it was, I for him sounded again and he just walked away with the line against nearly full "pressure of the brake, This time it took ubout 20 minutes to work him back to the boat again and the second time we landed him. Tt was not a lary fish,—one inch under five feet long, and sealed, and only 52 1b,, but he was immense ly powerful. "I was all in wh we'got him in the boat. He soon made a mess of the cockpit so the engineer had to hit him with a hammer to keep him quiet, Tt was the ordinary deep water shovel-nose shark, X. says he has vever heard of one taking a spoon before.
a very Jan tuli and fins, war 2 13 incin girth feat behind the head. T should have thought, it would have been much heavier
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