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...which will be converted into reconnaissance machines. Fitted with two 800-horsepower motors, capable of a top speed of 250 miles an hour, these Lockheeds will be far superior to the present Royal Air Force reconnaissance ships, the Avro Anson, with a maximum speed of 188, and the Blackburn Shark, with a maximum of 152. Two hundred North American BT-9B type, low-winged, single-motored monoplanes with a top speed of 171 miles an hour, were ordered from the North American Aviation plant at Inglewood, Calif., for use as advanced training ships...
...party of fishermen put out to sea; later, the men in one of the canoes sighted a shark and immediately anchored. . . . Presently a shark swallowed one of the bait, but in pulling the shark managed to cut the line. Subsequently, more than 20 lines were cut in this manner, which proved a source of great mystery to the expert fishermen...
...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...
...seine was dragged through the waters of the Singatoka River by women and boys. When the net had been drawn in a small circle in shallow water, the tribal chief waded in, waving a bewitched fan. After him followed a few huge Fijians who grasped three-and four-foot sharks by the tail, picked them up thrashing, quietly kissed them-either on the belly or just in front of the caudal fin. Thereupon each ugly shark went rigid, was put ashore never to move again...
...Combing the river," as natives call such biannual shark drives, baffled Father Laplante completely, baffled as well those who saw his film. Even the missionary, who has spent ten years trying to implant French Catholicism in Fiji, was ready to admit possibility of something preternatural. He remembered having tried to convert a certain native. The man demurred; he was already a Methodist. When the tribe combed the river, the dusky Methodist waded inside the net with the vampire-priests, was bitten by a shark...