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Its distinguishing feature is a shield or disc extending from the tip of the upper jaw to a point behind the shoulders, and said to be a modification of the spurious dorsal fin. This structure consists of a midrib and a number of transverse flat ridges capable of being raised or depressed. The disc has a membranous continuous edge or margin.
Seagrave and William, was watching the animal; but a minute afterwards, Ready exclaimed: "I thought as much we've lost him!" "How?" replied Mr. Seagrave. "D'ye see that black thing above water pushing so fast to the animal? that's the back fin of a shark, and he will have the poor thing there, he's got him!" said Ready, as the pig disappeared under the water with a heavy splash.
They know that Fin McCoul heaved it at Brian Boru, jerking it across the Lough from the opposite mountain five or six miles away, as an indication that he didn't care a button for his rival. These modern mountaineers are almost as easily gulled as their ancestors. They believe in Home Rule because they will, under an Irish Legislature, "get all they want."
There was a suspicion of a fin throwing up a little spray in the path of motion. It was horrible unbelievable! The mere suspicion galvanized him into action. Captain Jack's feet barely seemed to touch the deck as he leaped forward. Eph was at the wheel, but there was no time to shout a frenzied order that might be misunderstood.
While we were talking some of the crew cried out, "A shark! A shark!" and sure enough there was a huge creature swimming up close under the counter, with his fin just above the water, his wicked eye glancing up at the ship.
Jim, the only member of the crew besides Charlie who could understand or speak English, answered: "Kai-gingh him fin' pistol, you' pistol; Charlie him fight plenty; bime-by, when he no see, one-piecee Kai-gingh he come up behin', shoot um Charlie in side savvy?" "Did he kill him? Is he dead?" "No, I tinkum die plenty soon; him no savvy nuttin' now, him all-same sleep.
The logic with which sin and sanctity were often reconciled is illustrated in Irwin Russell's remarkably faithful "Christmas in the Quarters." "Brudder Brown" has advanced upon the crowded floor to "beg a blessin' on dis dance:" O Mashr! let dis gath'rin' fin' a blessin' in yo' sight!
While crossing, I saw numerous whales belonging to the three kinds peculiar to the southern seas; the whale, or the English "right whale," which has no dorsal fin; the "humpback," with reeved chest and large, whitish fins, which, in spite of its name, do not form wings; and the fin-back, of a yellowish brown, the liveliest of all the cetacea.
Unseen we were, we knew, but it was patent that the man above us would be round in front of us at any moment, and there we were to his plain eyesight! He was within three yards of a steel death, even had he been Fin MacCoul; but the bank he was standing on or lying on, as we learned again crumbled at the edge and threw him among us in a different fashion from that we had looked for.
Then we shut down and took to slow trolling. I saw another swordfish sail for my bait, and yelled. He shot off with the bait and his dorsal fin stuck out of the water. I hooked him. He leaped thirty-eight times. How the camera did snap during this fight! He weighed two hundred and ten. I had a fierce strike on the way in. Too fast! We lost him. "The sea's alive with swordfish!" cried Captain Dan.
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