ADVENTURE WITH A SHARK.

Dunstan Times, Issue 708, 12 November 1875, Page 3

ADVENTURE WITH A SHARK.

—— o— * Paul Boynton, who had a good deal of experience as a diver, gives tho following account of a curious adventure which he had with ashark :—“ I was down on a nasty rock bottom. A man never feels comfortable on them ; he can’t tell what big creature may be hiding under the huge quarter-dock sea leaves which grow there. Tho first part of the time 1 was visited by a porcupine fish, which kept sticking its quills up and bobbing in front of my helmet. Soon after I saw a big shadow fall across me, and looking up there was an infernal shark playing aVmt iry tubing. It makes you feel chilly in the hack when they’re about. He came to me slick as I looked up. I made at him and he sheered off. For near an hour bo worked at it, till I could stand it no longer. It you can keep your head level its all right, and your’e pretty safe if they are not on you sharp. This ugly brute was twenty feet long, I should think, for when I lay down all my length on the bottom he stretched a considerable way ahead of me, and I could see him beyond my feet. Then T waited. They must turn over to bite, and my lying clown bothered him. He swam over me three or four times, and then skulked off to a big thicket of sea weed to consider I know he’d come back when he settled his mind It seemed a long time waiting for him. At last he came viciously over me, but like the lime bflore, too far from my arm The next time [ had my chance and ripped him with my knife ns neatlv as I could. A shark always remembers he’s cut, so off this fellow goes. It is a curious tiling, too, that a’l the sharks about will follow in the bleed trril he leaves. I got on mv hands and knees, and as he swam off. I noticed four dark shadows slip after him I saw no more that time. They did not like ray company.