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Updated: May 20, 2025

When it dashes into a school of smaller fish, these fins whirl about in every direction, and as they are often four feet long they easily reach more than one hapless fish and he is swept into the yardwide mouth of the monster and devoured with almost lightning speed." After a rest, the party went out in the motorboat again, this time to catch foodfish.

Chelsea Curtis Fraser - Around the World in Ten Days