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Suddenly he looked at his watch. "Excuse me a moment. If the telegraph office is open . . ." and he rose and went in. When he returned, Klaus and Peer were talking of the home of their boyhood and their early days together. "Remember that time we went shark-fishing?" asked Klaus. "Oh yes that shark. Let me see you were a hero, weren't you, and beat it to death with your bare fists wasn't that it?"
It was a four- oared boat, rather bigger than usual, tarred all over except for the top plank, which was painted light blue. In the boat were the various bits of equipment needed for shark-fishing, including a thick wooden beam to which were attached four hooks of wrought iron, a keg of shark-bait which stank vilely, and barrels for the shark's liver.
Third in the list of special pleasures is the tour of the harbor in a fine steam pleasure-launch. Your richer friends own boats of this kind, and they will invite you, and the joys of the trip will make a long day seem short. And finally comes the shark-fishing. Sydney Harbor is populous with the finest breeds of man-eating sharks in the world.
For two days previous the Chinese hands had been getting out the deck-tubs, tackles, gaffs, spades, and the other shark-fishing gear that had been stowed forward. The sails were lowered and gasketed, the decks cleared of all impedimenta, hogsheads and huge vats stood ready in the waist, and the lazy indolence of the previous week was replaced by an extraordinary activity.
The natives had told Harvey and Roka that this bay was a spot famed as the haunt of a huge species of rock-cod called pura, some of which, they said, "took two strong men to lift," and they were greatly pleased when they found that both the white man and Roka knew the pura well, and had eagerly assented to Harvey's proposition that they should spend an hour or two in the place, and try and get one or two of the gigantic fish; as they had the necessary tackle thick, six-plaited lines of coir fibre, with heavy wooden hooks such as are used for shark-fishing by the natives of the equatorial and north-west islands of the Pacific.
Third in the list of special pleasures is the tour of the harbor in a fine steam pleasure-launch. Your richer friends own boats of this kind, and they will invite you, and the joys of the trip will make a long day seem short. And finally comes the shark-fishing. Sydney Harbor is populous with the finest breeds of man-eating sharks in the world.
Mole, Joe Basalt, Sam Mason, and Jack Tiller. "Now Jack," said Mr. Mole, settling himself comfortably at the rudder lines; "and you too, my dear Harry, you know, of course, we are going shark-fishing. You understand what that is?" "I know what a shark is, if you mean that," answered young Jack. "Rather," said Harry, with a shudder at old recollections "we had a white one after us once."
The hook is made of wood in fact, the same as is used for shark-fishing about one inch and a half in diameter, fourteen inches in the shank, with a natural curve; the barb, or rather that which answers the purpose of a barb, being supplied by a small piece lashed horizontally across the top of the end of the curve.
I'll tackle him presently, but I I slipped down," said Mr. Mole. "So I see, sir." "And I mean to show you some novel sport in the way of shark-fishing," said the old gentleman. "You?" "Yes." He had brought a large hamper with him, which he now proceeded to unpack, the occupants of the boat looking on with great interest in the business.
The man hurried away joyously to do George's bidding, hailing his comrades aloft to "knock off work and come shark-fishing, all you sea-dogs aloft there," as soon as he had placed a sufficiently respectful distance between himself and his skipper.
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