Excerpt from Travel and Big Game
An ocean passage now-a-days is humdrum, compared to what it was twenty-five years ago; but even then, it was not ever voyage which was marked with such incidents as was that of R. M. S. S., the "Neva," in which vessel I was bound for Buenos Ayres en route for the Banda Orientale.
We were at anchor at St. Vincent, Cape Verdes, watching the boys diving for coin, when the fin of a big shark, attracted by the offal thrown overboard by the butcher, was discerned coming in from the open water. A general sauve-qui-peut among the swimmers took place and the shark came right up to within a stone's throw of the ship. It having transpired that there was a man on shore who had had some experience in whaling, and had the paraphernalia therefor, a deputation from among the passengers set out to try and induce him to harpoon the fish.
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