Of the sharks we caught a great many, which our men ate very savourily.

Among them we caught one which was eleven feet long.

The space between its two eyes was twenty inches, and eighteen inches from one corner of his mouth to the other.
Its maw was like a leather sack, very thick, and so tough that a sharp knife could scarce cut it, in which we found the head and bones of a hippopotamus, the hairy lips of which were still sound and not putrified, and the jaw was also firm, out of which we plucked a great many teeth, two of them eight inches long and as big as a man's thumb, small at one end, and a little crooked, the rest not above half so long.

The maw was full of jelly, which stank extremely.

However, I saved for awhile the teeth and the shark's jaw.