The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-20
SEA SERpENTS SEEN +!
Monsters of the Deep Coming to the Surface-Two
Salt Water Snakes Afloat- Interesting
Narrative Of Yankee shipmaster.

Narrative of Yankee 6hipmaster.
Now the Toilers OF the Sea- tell us of veritable
sea serpent. The story is strange one, and it Is
but natural that there should be sceptcal landlub
bers, ay and mariners too, who will question the
veracity OF the assertion that one of these Shiny
monsters OF the deep has come to the surface OF
the waters and given a free and unexpected exhi-
bition of his awful proportions to the who Ego
down to the sea in ships" Tdings OF the reap
pearance Of 1.-THE" sea serpent, or serpents, is
brought to the world ashore by
YANKEE CAPTAIN,
and, strangely coincdent by the master Of the ship
Sea Serpent, owned by Grnnell, Minturn & Co., OF
New York. With view to throwing further light
upon the phosphoric subject, which was conveyed
to the HERALD Admiralty Bureau upon the arrival
Of the favored ship, representative of this
journal wendell his way along Furman street yes
terday, while the bells were summOning the Brook
lyntes to church to hear the mysteries of faith and
redemption. His destination was Prentice's dock,
at the foot OF which was mOOred the sharp
proved craft which bore the gallant crew that
SAW THE MONSTER.
It was not without danger THAT OF slipping OF
the icy Jacobs ladder which led up from the dock
to the bulwarks) and difficulty that the quarter
deck Of the snip was reached. The ofilcer hailed.
''Hallol there; is the Captain aboardsn A repeti-
ton OF the inquiry elected an answer colored
man emerged from the cabin hatchway and led the
searcher alter truth concerning the
mysteries Of the deep to the Cap
tain. He was met by tall, fine
looking man, with patriarchal growth Of beard,
over whose head had doubtless passed, though
lightly, not less than sixty years. The waves AID
bufletings of Old Neptune nad Jailed to seriously
lurrow nus bland, GENIAL countenance or dim the
lustre OF pair OF sAarp, twinkllng hazel eyes, He
advanced 70 meet his visitor and shook hands
warmly ere he nad been informed as the pature
OF the commission upon which the scribe was bent.
Captain White lpresume ~
"fhat's my name, sir am glad to see you; take
q seat"
"lou report having seen
SEA SERPENT.
/ am representative OF the HERALD, and have
called 10 CLEAN such circumstances connected with
your extraordinary experience as you may be able
to give upon the SUBJECT
.sWel, sir, know that there are many people
who won't believe what have to say on this SUBJ
ject mat does not after the case, however. WHAT
! have reportes IS true; but IL Is just this way
the majority OF olks will say, "Oh yes that will do
for yarn; It's another Nahant story" Nahant is
q watering place near Boston, Mass, and generally
opens about the latter part OF May. lie news
papers, when they want to attract early attention
to that popular resort, circulate all sorts OF rumors
about the sea serpent having made an appearance
OH Nahant. These stories have been given out SO
often that people nowadays laugh at their repeti-
tOn.n
ave cannot help the doubling Thomases, Captain,
but let those VINO will believe have tue facts II you
please, as Conc1sey as pOSSIDe.D
Nhy bless your heart, have seen sea serpent
before, about nve years ago.
"Where was that-in wnat locality ? l do not
recollect readiag OF the circumstance"
at was in tue south Pacific ocean, OF Juan Fer
nandez. Isaw 1t quite plainly. ! made no particu-
the press. But about this my last voyage. Well,
sir, was the quarter deck oil the SHIP on May 5,
1872. We were on Norfolk Island, IN latitude ~ 3S
SOUTH longitude 10 Al east, about six thousand
miles from san Francisco, bound for Hong Kong,
when the men who were out on the tpretopsail-
yard, engages III reenng sall, sung out to me,
Captain, look over the side aud lust see what's
over therel" ran to the rail, and upon looking
over-it was blowing pretty lresh breeze at the
time though there was not much of a OIL saw,
dist mt only iour or SIX 1eet rom the ships
weather quarter
HUGE MONSTER.
We were going, according to the log, five knots
an hour. AS mace the reptile out il was a sea
serpent OF deep brown color ana not less than fity
feet in length from head TO tip OF the tail. IL was
two ieet In diameter. The mead was somewhat
larger than the rest OF the body When the
monster was about twenty feet astern OF tie ship
IL raised its head about our feet a0ove the water,
and, opening an enormous mouth, gaped
yawned, as though just awakened from scand
sleep. could not distinguish the color its ey es.
Before my astonishment had su1s,ded [ observed,
also did the entire ships crew. another similar
CoILED UP, AS THOUGH ASLEEP,
floating by on the lee slde.n
at is a truly wonderful story Captain but 1872
will be noted lor its many contributions TO stories
OF the sea. There have been several storms,
wrecks waterspouts and other phenomena, and
beneath the vastly deep may have become so dis
arranged as to discount the monsters by driving
| them 10 the suriaceYn
''1hat is very true What makes IL more remark
| able IS that upon the stern OF this ship are two
large GIT figures of sea scrpents coed up-em-
! blematic OF the name Of the vessel.n
"Have you ever seen sea serpents upon occasions
| other than those you have ntioned ~
''No, sir; never have, ana / have been going to
| seq for about fifty years.
"fiow long did you keep the reptiles in sight %
'Not long. Like all bad characters
THEY RAN AWAY FROM Us
| as fast as they could. The serpent spoke of as
having seen or Juan Fernandez gave a longer view
! OF Itself. 1t passed the ship gong to windw ard
and then rounded and repassed on the lee side That
serpents body was quite PLAIN above the water as
! IL moved along Did you ever read that story about
| the Boy Who Was Laughed At y 1t was written
| by John Coddington, Boston boy.' I'm Boston
boy'-was born in Boston. Well, that story tells all
| aDout boy wac lived with his Uncle Josh and had
to get up early and do all the chorea and feed the
pIps until he gre tired, anG taking his bundle of
buds, ran away TO sea. lie was laughed at Tor his
mental services ashore and sought TO do better at
lie grew up to be master, made money and
| got married.
| Folks WILL LAUGH,
| and Ii don't do any harm. You have heard OF the
| snowman who brought to New York gorilla Tor.
rather, bab0on), whlcn he advertised as ex-
| tremely dangerous. People Hooked from all sides
! To see this wonderful Wild man. Among them was
| the Snowman, saying, why, SIR, this creature has
tail; the gorilla has none, That is 1t exactly
| SAID the exhibitor; 'lor here you have gorilla
that actually has tail. CLAIM for it the greater
The relevancy OF these brief anecdotes is arpar-
ent. Captain j. ID. White vouches Tor the autnen-
ITCHY OF has narrative concerning the sea serpents.
His snip Is now dischargng cargo at Prentice'a
dock, near Wall street ferry Brooklyn.
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