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Rockwell Kent sailed for Unamak, Greenland, where he will paint, write, live mostly on shark, seal & whale, initiate his 13-year-old son Gordon into Eskimo life. Said Artist Kent: "A very fine people, the Greenlanders. All marvelous physical specimens. . . . Their personal lives are free and unrestrained. . . . Their social life is a riot. If it weren't for the necessities of getting a living, they'd dance all the time, all night and every night...
...stream. That seems tame to Novelist-Fisherman Zane Grey. He has seen monsters long and heavy and fierce as tigers hurtle themselves 30 ft. above the deep sea. In the current Natural History magazine, out last week, he told about them in the first account ever published of a shark that leaps when hooked...
Scientists call the shark Isuris, most laymen call it "mackerel shark" (because it eats mackerel and looks a little like one) and New Zealand fishermen, who hate & fear it, call it "the great mako." It lives mostly in the South Seas and off New Zealand but, straying over the world, it has been seen as far north as Cape Cod. Largest ever caught was hooked off New Zealand in 1931 by one H. Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against...
...decorated tips which the Coclés stuck in their ears, breastplates embossed with strange monsters, plaques bearing robot-like human faces. There were mirrors of hematite, agate beads and pendants, statuets carved from ribs of the manatee (sea cow), spearpoints made of sting-ray spines and sawfish teeth, shark's tooth necklaces, wild boars' tusks set in gold...
...moment I can only commit myself on one point-it is a selachian [shark and ray family]. ... As for the individual characteristics of the monster, it is possible we are in the presence of an unknown species. C'est epatant...