Excerpt from Works of Jules Verne, Vol. 4: In Search of the Castaways: South America, Australia, New Zealand The Duncan was newly built, and had been making a trial trip a few miles outside the Firth Of Clyde. She was returning to Glasgow, and the Isle Of Arran already loomed in the distance, when the sailor on watch caught sight of an enormous fish sporting in the wake Of the ship. Lord Edward, who was immediately apprised Of the fact, came up on the poop a few minutes after with his cousin, and asked John Mangles, the captain, what sort Of an animal he thought it was. Well, since your Lordship asks my opinion, Mangles, I think it is a shark, and a fine large one too. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.