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| 51 | 115 | "View more quotes about another">Another theory," said Sakim, "is that the hith scents warmth and blood, and its attack is not so much to destroy an intruder as to get at possible food". |
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| 51 | 112 | "One does not know". |
| 51 | 113 | I found it difficult to take my eyes away from the confusion, the blood, the terror, and carnage in the water. |
| 51 | 114 | The hith's jaws had closed on a screaming swimmer; then the swimmer was drawn underwater, the place marked with bubbles exploding to the surface. |
| 51 | 115 | "Another theory," said Sakim, "is that the hith scents warmth and blood, and its attack is not so much to destroy an intruder as to get at possible food". |
| 51 | 116 | "I think the defense-of-territory theory is more plausible," I said. |
| 51 | 117 | "First would come the movement of oars, particularly of several oars, the disturbance in the water, alerting the hith to the presence of an intruder, then the discovery of a large, dark shape entering his domain, and then, only after the attack, would it be likely to sense possible prey, thrashing in the water". |
| 51 | 118 | "I much agree," said Sakim, "and such is my view, but surely you will grant that once food has been associated with an attack, that attacks might be thus encouraged?" "Surely," I said. |