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ESCAPE FROM A SHARK.—A METEOR, &C.
345
The following is an account of a most alarming accident
io a boy on board the Ganges, on her passage to China
£C During our detention at Angar Point, on the coast of
Java, on the 5th of May last, John Walker, boatswain’s
boy of the Ganges, aged 13, swimming alongside of the
ship when at anchor, and at a few yards distance from
our boat with three seamen in it, was discovered by a
shark,, whojmmediately approached him, and independ-
ent of the exertions of the boat’s crew to intimidate the
hungry monster, he laid hold of the unfortunate boy, by
including in his mouth the whole of his right leg and more
than half the thigh, pulling him beneath the water close
alongside the ship, when upwards of 100 men were spec-
tators of the scene, and kept him below for near two
minutes, in which time he had tore off the leg and thigh to
the extent above mentioned.—The boy once more made his
appearance on the surface of the water, and the shark
upon his back, with his jaws once more extended to make
a finish of his prey, when a lad from the boat struck him
with the boat-hook, and by the same instrument laid hold
of the boy and brought him on board.—-The boy had lost
a vast deal of blood, the stump was dreadfully lacerated,
and the bone splintered near an inch and a half, which re-
quired an amputation of the thigh close to the hip-joint.—
Under all these untoward circumstances, the boy has re-
covered quite well within three months from the date of the-
pperation.—The fleet, as it was an extraordinary case,
have subscribed upwards of <£280 for him,”—Bombay
Courier, Feb.. 19.
SINGULAR METEOR,
Stones floating in the immense Space, Sc.
.An English Gentleman, who is a prisoner at Fontainbleau,
writes under date of the 13th July, as follows :—“ I was
bathing a few evenings since, with some Englishmen my
fellow-
345
The following is an account of a most alarming accident
io a boy on board the Ganges, on her passage to China
£C During our detention at Angar Point, on the coast of
Java, on the 5th of May last, John Walker, boatswain’s
boy of the Ganges, aged 13, swimming alongside of the
ship when at anchor, and at a few yards distance from
our boat with three seamen in it, was discovered by a
shark,, whojmmediately approached him, and independ-
ent of the exertions of the boat’s crew to intimidate the
hungry monster, he laid hold of the unfortunate boy, by
including in his mouth the whole of his right leg and more
than half the thigh, pulling him beneath the water close
alongside the ship, when upwards of 100 men were spec-
tators of the scene, and kept him below for near two
minutes, in which time he had tore off the leg and thigh to
the extent above mentioned.—The boy once more made his
appearance on the surface of the water, and the shark
upon his back, with his jaws once more extended to make
a finish of his prey, when a lad from the boat struck him
with the boat-hook, and by the same instrument laid hold
of the boy and brought him on board.—-The boy had lost
a vast deal of blood, the stump was dreadfully lacerated,
and the bone splintered near an inch and a half, which re-
quired an amputation of the thigh close to the hip-joint.—
Under all these untoward circumstances, the boy has re-
covered quite well within three months from the date of the-
pperation.—The fleet, as it was an extraordinary case,
have subscribed upwards of <£280 for him,”—Bombay
Courier, Feb.. 19.
SINGULAR METEOR,
Stones floating in the immense Space, Sc.
.An English Gentleman, who is a prisoner at Fontainbleau,
writes under date of the 13th July, as follows :—“ I was
bathing a few evenings since, with some Englishmen my
fellow-