Finally, and after my own visit to that chief of all yellow-fever-stricken dens, a British gun-boat put a shell into Joe and blew him into smithereens.

In many shark-infested waters, such as around Ocean Island, the natives swim fearlessly among them.

This ocean island, by the way, is probably the most intrinsically valuable spot of land on earth, consisting of a solid mass of coral and phosphate.

"Pelorus Jack," who gave so much interest to the Cook Channel in New Zealand, was not a shark..