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 (one would have thought) enough to drive one of the Planks through the Deck. The Mate run for a Handpike and put it into her Mouth, which he chewed to Pieces; but the Carpenter with his broad Axe truck off her Tail, from which the Blood prung to an amazing Height: We then cut off her Head, and ripped her up, her Milt filled a Barrel in which we ued to teep our Beef. And looking a her Gut Bag, it was o big that our Curioity led us to open it likewie; here my Beef was the firt Thing that preented me, and it would have been now no longer in my Power to have denied my Error in thus feeding the Shark with the Crews Proviions. Here was likewie a large Hook and Line in it, and a Man's Leg bit off above the Knee: Upon eeing this the Men cryed to heave her over Board, which was intantly do and not withtanding her being thus angled he wam round the Ship before he went to the Bottom; at the ame Time her Heart was moving on the Deck, and continued to move o after the Body was unk. The Negroes came crowding to the Ship on Purpoe to buy her from us, and would have given us a Pitole for her, but by this Time he was gone, o by this Means we lot a good Doe of Rum, and they a Feat, for they devour a Shark when catched as greedily as a Shark devours a Man. This Fih was about ixteen Feet long.