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...last, however, the shark was caught, but as it was being hauled in, the fishermen were shocked speechless with surprise -for at the end of the hook was not a shark, but a Lagosian woman whose long, wet hair was matted about her face. She was a fish hooks seller in the village . . . and part of her body was sharklike, the other part human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Fishhook | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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