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Updated: June 23, 2025
Why, look you, squire, said the major-domo. You may call a lake-fish that will weigh twenty or thirty pounds a serious matter, but to a man who has hauled in a shovel-nosed shirk, dye see, its but a poor kind of fishing after all.
We were gliding along, hardly three knots an hour, when my comrade, who had been dozing over the gunwale, suddenly started to his feet, and pointed out an immense Shovel-nosed Shark, less than a boat's length distant, and about half a fathom beneath the surface.
A little group not far from 'Tchusan' is called 'the Bear and Cubs; another 'Lowang, or 'Buffalo's Nose; another 'Chutta-than, or 'Shovel-nosed Shark. Near the Japan Isles there is a little cluster called 'Asses' Ears. This sea is called by the Chinese Tong-hai; and in it are the large islands Formosa and Loo-choo; but I know nothing of them."
Land and water were then distinguishable, but as yet there was no terrestrial animal, nothing organic but radiata and molluscs, holly-footed and head-footed, and other aquatic monstrosities, mailed, plated, and buckler-headed, casting the shovel-nosed shark of the present Cosmos entirely into the shade, in point of horned, toothed, and serrated horrors.
"Now, old salt, that schooner can sail rings around any shovel-nosed old boat with those funny little crosspieces on her masts. Houten admitted that. We must hinder that schooner, long enough to beat her to the Sandang River. That's your job, sailor. But don't pull stuff raw enough to get us clapped into the calaboose. Report back here. I'll be back like a shot.
An uncouth, hardy, honest old monster was this Finn a Caliban of a fellow, half human, half fish with a great sou'wester on his head, a rough monkey-jacket buttoned around his body, and a pair of boots on his legs that must have been designed for wading over coral reefs, through seas of swordfish, shovel-nosed sharks, and unicorns.
"Look at our visitors," said a sailor, pointing over the side. Long streaks of phosphorescence darted back and forth in the shadow of the boat. "That's a pretty bunch of shovel-nosed man-eaters, for you," remarked the mate. "Gosh, wouldn't you hate to give the hungry devils a chance at you, though?" The baile was in full swing. The bichara was proving a great success.
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