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GIANT EELS OF WORLDS WATERS There may be some who class with fishermens yarns the story of the diver at Tobermory Kngland who was recently attacked by a fifteenfoot conger eel There is no reason for doing so Congers grow to a gigantic size and eels of all sorts are ugly customers customersSome Some years ago i giant conger was caught in the shallow water off the beach at Snettisham in Nor ¬ folk Kngand It measured S feet S inches in length and weighed 14S pounds Such a brute if caught on a line and drawn injo a lioat would be a danger ¬ ous capture Congers half that size have been known to bite a mans hand in two and to have driven their teeth through the blade of an oar oarIn In 1513 KakananiNku the champion Olympic swimmer of Honolulu was attacked by si giant eel which dragged him under water si ml held him there for nearly two minutes lie escaped at last hut at the cost of the first finger of his right h 1 1Kcls Kcls sittain an immense size in the rivers of New calami and have been known to attack bath ¬ ers Many cases of bathers being drowned occurred in a river near an outstation owned by a relative of Colonel McyseyThompson sind it was at last defnitely ascertained that eels dragged them down downIn In April 1913 sin eel caused the death of si fish ¬ erman at Singapore The man wis fishing off Swet tenham pier with i line which he had foolishly fastened siround his wrist An eel estimated to be ten feet long swallowed the honk and despite his struggles he wsis dragged in sinil drowned His dead body was afterward found under the pier with the line now severed still sittached to his wrist
