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Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean: From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People
Autor: Park, Marmaduke
Nakladatelství:
Books LLC
ISBN: 9781443213882
Původní cena:
2551 Kč
Vaše cena:
2319 Kč
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Excerpt: From authentic accounts of modern voyagers and travellers; designed for the entertainment and instruction of young people. By Marmaduke Park. With Numerous Illustrations. The White Shark. PHILADELPHIA: C.G. HENDERSON CO., NO. 164 CHESTNUT STREET. 1852. [pg 5] The White Shark. STORIES OF THE OCEAN. VOLNEY BECKNER. The white sharks are the dread of sailors in all hot climates, for they constantly attend vessels in expectation of anything which may be thrown overboard. A shark will thus sometimes traverse the ocean in company with a ship for several hundred leagues. Woe to the poor mariner who may chance to fall overboard while this sea-monster is present. [pg 6] Some species of sharks grow to an enormous size, often weighing from one to four thousand pounds each. The skin of the shark is rough, and is used for polishing wood, ivory, c.; that of one species is manufactured into an article called shagreen: spectacle-cases are made of it. The white shark is the sailor's worst enemy: he has five rows of wedge-shaped teeth, which are notched like a saw: when the animal is at rest they are flat in his mouth, but when about to seize his prey they are erected by a set of muscles which join them to the jaw. His mouth is so situated under the head that he is obliged to turn himself on one side before he can grasp any thing with those enormous jaws. I will now give you an account of the death of a very brave little boy, who was killed by a shark. He was an Irish boy; his name was Volney Beckner, the son of a poor fisherman. His father, having always intended Volney for a seafaring life, took great pains to teach him such things as it is useful for a sailor to know, and tried to make him brave and hardy; he taught him to swim when a mere baby. [pg 7] Volney Beckner's first voyage. Volney was only nine years old when he first went to sea in a merchant ship; the same vessel in which his father sometimes sailed. Here he worked hard and fared hard, but this gave him...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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