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Updated: May 13, 2025
When he was a boy he had seen his father catch the caymen, and on the morrow he would make something that would answer. In the meantime we set the shark-hook, but it availed us naught: a cayman came and took it, but would not swallow it. Seeing it was useless to attend the shark-hook any longer, we left it for the night and returned to our hammocks.
"I must try our shark-hook," observed Dick, putting on a large bait, and fastening it to the end of a thick rope. "Nothing frightens the fish in these seas; and if we were to lower down a hempen cable with a baited hook, they would bite as freely as they would if we were to use a hair-line."
But now if any one has a bit of fat pork, I wouldn't be a bit surprised but we can fish up one of them finny monsters." Accordingly a bit of pork was secured from the galley stores and placed on the shark-hook, a huge affair as big as the hook used to hang meat on in butcher shops. To its hank was shackled a bit of stout chain, about two feet long.
My own was already made, for I always take with me a painted sheet about twelve feet by ten. This thrown over a pole, supported betwixt two trees, makes you a capital roof with very little trouble. We showed one of the Indians the shark-hook. He shook his head and laughed at it, and said it would not do.
"Well, when I was in these very waters in the Scaramouch we caught one with a bit of pork that weighed the shark, I mean, not the pork I forget just what, and wouldn't say, for fear you might think I was prevastigating, but it was twenty-four foot long." "Oh, come, Bill, not twenty-four," protested Harry. "That's what it was," stoutly asserted Bill, rummaging in a locker for a shark-hook.
It may be proper to mention in this connection that the shark referred to was finally captured before entering the harbor of Yokohama, by means of a stout line and shark-hook baited with a large piece of salt pork, and was promptly dispatched.
We tried to catch some, and one was soon hooked; it required half-a-dozen hands to haul him up the river, and the shark-hook straightened, and he got away. A large iron hook was next made, but, as the creatures could not swallow it, their jaws soon pressed it straight and our crocodile-fishing was a failure.
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