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  • "'I dived plump onto an enormous hammerhead off the Morocco coast...and all he did was to ask my pardon and hurry away. Most sharks are gammon.'"

    "'Not in the Red Sea they ain't,' said Hanmer. 'I had a ship's boy called Thwaites ... and he was sitting in the lee mainchains ... trailing his feet in the water: the ship heeled a strake or two with a puff of wind and a shark had his legs off at the knee before you could say knife.'

    "This struck a chord in the mind of Captain Ball, whose attention had wandered long ago. 'I am going to have such a fish for dinner,' he cried. 'They showed him to me when I arrived—a lupo. Very like a bass, but more so. Aubrey, you and Captain Pullings must share him; he is quite big enough for three.'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 49

    February 15, 2008