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Shore Was Lined Thick With Many Other Sorts Of Very Strange And
Beautiful Shells For Variety Of Colour And Shape, Most Finely
Spotted With Red, Black, Or Yellow, Etc., Such As I Have Not Seen
Anywhere But At This Place.
I brought away a great many of them,
but lost all except a very few, and those not of the best.
There are also some green turtle weighing about two hundred pounds.
Of these we caught two, which the water ebbing had left behind a
ledge of rock which they could not creep over. These served all my
company two days, and they were indifferent sweet meat. Of the
sharks we caught a great many, which our men ate very savourily.
Among them we caught one which was eleven feet long. The space
between its two eyes was twenty inches, and eighteen inches from one
corner of his mouth to the other. Its maw was like a leather sack,
very thick, and so tough that a sharp knife could scarce cut it, in
which we found the head and bones of a hippopotamus, the hairy lips
of which were still sound and not putrified, and the jaw was also
firm, out of which we plucked a great many teeth, two of them eight
inches long and as big as a man's thumb, small at one end, and a
little crooked, the rest not above half so long. The maw was full
of jelly, which stank extremely. However, I saved for awhile the
teeth and the shark's jaw.
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