In 1627, the Scots-born Charles I had been king of Great Britain and Ireland for just two years. His ruinous civil war was still out of sight, beyond the horizon of time. As those ships plied the waters of the North Atlantic, carrying their cargo of sadness, they were unknowingly in the territory, some tiny swatch of it at least, of a shark that had just embarked upon an odyssey without apparent end. It was of the family Somniosidae, which means sleeper. The common name of the species is Greenland

Source: The North Africa Journal August 29, 2020 23:03 UTC