Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — This Shark Bit a Man. [ARTICLE]

This Shark Bit a Man.

Capt. John A. Beebe of Nantucket,bobeing appealed to lutely to decide the mooted point whether sharps ever eat human beings, uuswerod that they do. “In 1857,” he wrote. “ I met the bark Elizabeth of New Bedford in tho Mozambique Channel. Tho day previous being calm,the men indulged in sea bathing. A man ventured fifteen yards from the ship when the lookout reported a shark on the opposite side of the ship. The alarm was fivon, and the swimmer was making the est of his way to the ship. The shark disappeared, passed under the ship, and soon appeared in tho roar of the man. The crew preparod a rope and threw an end to the swimmer as the shark took him by the leg, taking the wholo calf off, leaving little besides the bone. The man kept a death grip on the rope and was drawn on board. Tho leg wos amputated that night.”—[Springfield Republican.