Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean - From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed - For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People

Project Gutenberg's Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean, by Marmaduke Park This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People Author: Marmaduke Park Release Date: October 6, 2004 [EBook #13604] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THRILLING STORIES OF THE OCEAN *** Produced by Josephine Paolucci, Juliet Sutherland. The scans made available through the generosity of the Internet Archive Children's Library. Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From authentic accounts of modern voyagers and travellers; designed for the entertainment and instruction of young people. By Marmaduke Park. With Numerous Illustrations. The White Shark. PHILADELPHIA: C.G. HENDERSON & CO., NO. 164 CHESTNUT STREET. 1852. The White Shark. STORIES OF THE OCEAN. VOLNEY BECKNER. The white sharks are the dread of sailors in all hot climates, for they constantly attend vessels in expectation of anything which may be thrown overboard. A shark will thus sometimes traverse the ocean in company with a ship for several hundred leagues.