Memoirs of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. The Alleged Pugnacity of the Swordfish and the Spearfishes as Shown by their Attacks on Vessels

INTRODUCTION THE SWORDFISH AND THE SPEARFISHES—THE XIPHIIFORMES THE XIPHIID4-THE SWORDFISH.... THE ISTIOPHORID/E-THE SPEARFISHES AND SAILFISHES The Spearfishes Proper or the Marlinspike Fishes The Sailfishes THE WEAPONS OF THE OCEAN SWASHBUCKLERS THE USE OF THE WEAPONS OF THE XIPHIIFORMES IN OBTAINING FOOD How the Swordfish gets its Food How the Spearfishes get their Food Page.. 218 218 220 221 [...] 274 XIPHIAS DRIVES ITS SWORD IN THE MUD OF THE SEA BOTTOM 276 THE FORCE OF THE BLOW DELIVERED BY THE SWORDFISH AND THE SPEAFISHES ' 277 THE SHOCK TO THE SHIP FROM THE IMPACT OF THE FISH 277 DEPTHS OF PENETRATION IN THE HULLS OF SHIPS OF THE WEAPONS OF THE FISHES 279 Penetrations of 5 to 9 Inches.. 279 Penetrations of ro to 15 Inches.. [...] From the base of the spear the contour of the head rises somewhat steeply to the anterior base of the dorsal fin. [...] S. `Fawn' which has been pierced by the pointed prolongation of the upper jaw of a Sword Fish (Histiophorus velifer)—[a sailfish ?] ; this weapon has penetrated the copper sheathing the felt the deal and the hard oak timbers to the depth of 14 inches; and nearly that extent of the 'sword' has been broken off by the force of the blow and is retained in the wood [Pl. [...] In 1869 the anonymous recorder in the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History lists the accession of : 'A plank of southern pine perforated by and containing a portion of the sword of the sword-fish Histiophorus from the side of the ship Pochontas " [presented] by the owners Messrs.