Alligator And Shark

A Gurveying ■■ . ; ' ■■ rao-jth of thc St. Sebnsíi; iiv ■ lated to a . .1 few i . .: '. ;'t Titusville, cnd he to í r orter L'thePalatka Herald, 1 .a most desi v.n alligator und a shark at the first mentioned , The engineers had pitehed their tents near the river, , itsmouth, and were i ating1 their dinner onder a sma.ll clump of palms. All i their attcntion was a.ttractcd to a violent commotion in the water near thc Ehore. At íir:=t the bodieswer bo active ;?nd made tlie spray, in1 -.1 with blood, so heavy th uld not make out what the two obj ata vvere. I-'inally, ■ after obotit half an hour oí í.uch worle, the nu neters seemed to be prrov.-ing weak and v, ary. ít was then discovered to be a fight to tha death between a large aligátor end a man-eatinjf shark. Thc fermer seemed to be trying to gat to shallow water, while thcsharV; was equally ts determined not to go. The fight v.'cis Btill foing on, although gTowin Ices vigorous all the time, when one of the parties prot his AV'inchester ;:nd shot them both. On pulling' them ashore the alligator was found minus a foreleg, bit off as smooth as if cut oft' with a surgeon's linife. Thc shark liad mimerous ugly gashes on liis body which would probably have killed him soon. The party skinned the alligator and saved some of the teeth of the shark as mementoes of this singular and encounter.