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| 22 | 55 | View more quotes about further">Further, such beasts are rare. |
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| 22 | 52 | Such beasts, in spite of their frightening appearance, are apparently harmless to men. |
| 22 | 53 | They can take only bits of garbage and small fish. |
| 22 | 54 | Certain related species thrive on crustaceans found among aquatic flora. |
| 22 | 55 | Further, such beasts are rare. |
| 22 | 56 | Some sailors, reportedly, have never seen one. |
| 22 | 57 | Far more common, and dangerous, are certain fishlike marine saurians, with long, toothed snouts; they are silent and aggressive, and sailors fear them as they do the long-bodied sharks. |
| 22 | 58 | The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in Thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent northern waters. |