shark-bones

Updated: May 18, 2025

Around the "step" of the mast a variety of other objects might have been seen: such as oars, handspikes, pieces of loose boards, some tangled coils of rope, an axe or two, half a dozen tin pots and "tots," such as are used by sailors, a quantity of shark-bones clean picked, with two or three other bones, like those already alluded to, and whose size and form told them to be the tibia of a human skeleton.

Mayne Reid - The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea