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Updated: May 2, 2025
The famishing sailors actually caught with a bowling-knot a shark eight feet in length, with their bare hands, and hauled it upon the raft; they killed it, drank the blood, and ate part of the flesh, husbanding the remainder. Lieutenant Wilson and four seamen survived, and recovered their strength.
He showed her with this piece of string half a dozen such knots, none of which could either jam or slip. "Tie me a lover's knot," suggested the lady, in a whisper. "Ay! ay!" and he tied her a lover's knot as imperturbably as he had the reef knot, bowling-knot, fisherman's bend, etc. "This is very interesting," said Mrs. Bazalgette, ironically.
To this Lieutenant Wilson and his people clung, and contrived to form a raft, on which two Kroomen and three of the seamen perished, but Lieutenant Wilson, with four survivors, after remaining twenty days on their raft, being supported chiefly by the flesh of a shark caught with a bowling-knot, were picked up after undergoing fearful hardships, and ultimately recovered their health.
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