The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-03-08
NUMBER 5tbs7UdT
WONDERFUL STORY OF THE DEEP .


An Immense Sea Monster CAPTURES and y
SwallOwsa Sperm Whale o. sO'N
Captain Drewar, Of the bark Pauline y
Of London, who has Just arrived at 4
Cork from, long voyage, favers theg
public, with the. following account of an
ocean marvel: 1aY' . "
Bark Pauline, July 9, 1875, latitude 5
deg. ID min. north, longitude 35 deg.
west, Cape San Rogue, northeast eoast
of Brazil, distance 20 miles, at Al a. M, :
the weather Iine and clear, wind and
sea moderate. observed some black
spots on the Water,s and q Whitish pillar
some 80 feet high above them. At the
first sight took all to be breakers, as
the sea was splashing up feuntainslike. .
about them, and the. pillar q, pinnacle =.
rock, bleached with the sun, but the
pillar fell with splash and similar D
one rose. They rose and fell alternate
ly in quick succession, and good glasses
showed me it was a monster seassef-
pent coiled twice around alarge sperm
whale. The head and tail parts, each
about 80 feet long, were acting as 0
levers, twisting itself and its victim r
round with great velocity. They sank
out of sight every two minutes, coming O
to the surface still revolving; and the
struggles of the whale and two other y
whales that were near, frantic with ,exsi
citement, made the sea in their vicinity
like boiling caldren; and d loud, con-
fused noise was distinctly heard. This +
strange occurrence lasted some fifteen
minutes, and finished with the
tail portion Of the whale being elevated
straight in the, air., then waving back. 8
ward and forward, and lashing the VS.
ter furiously in the last death struggle;o o
when the whole body. disappeared from,
view, going down head foremost to the
bottom, where no doubt it was gorged 6
at the, serpent's leisure,;, and that mon;
ster Of monsters may have been many
months in stateof coma, digesting the
huge mouthful. Then two lof Ythe
largest sp4rm whales that ], have ever .,
seen moved slowly thence toward the
vessel, their bodies more than Usually
elevated out of theewateF, and not spout
ing or making the least'noise, bntseeme 3
ing quite paralyzed with. fear indeed, a
cold shiver ran through my own framer
on ,beholding the last agoniziing strngz
gle of the poor whale that had seemed .
as helpless in the coils of 1.-THE vicious
monster as q bird in the talons of AZ
hawk. Allowing for two coils round
the whsle, / think the, serpent was
about 160 or ITO feet long, and or 5
feet in girthI Tt was in color much like
a conger eel = and the. head, gfromithey
mouth being always open, appeared the q
largest part of its body. It is curious
that the whale, that lives on the SMALL
est food Ct any fish in the ocean, should
itself be but a meal for another mon!
ster for think lit as feasible that thee
serpent swallowed thewhale as that the.
boa constructor can consume a whole
fblllIoek. 1 NS0I0U 81 tYiGjs
r. Iswrote thus far little, thinking a.
would ever see the serpent again; bpt Z
at a. m, July 13, in the same latitude
and some eighty miles east Of San,
Rogue, I was astonished to see the
same or q similar monster. It Iwas3
throwing its head and about fortys feet
of its body in q horizontal position out
of the water as it passed onward BY :
the stern of our vessel. I began mus
ing why we were SO much favored with
such a strange visitor, end concluded
that the band of white paint, two feet
wide above the copper, might have
looked like a fellow-serpent to it, and no
/ doubt attracted its attention. It was
put on to keep the vessels side clear
and free from barnacles, which lit. does
remarkably well; and if the agitstors
about Che deep load-line gain their wish,,
it would be both useful and practical to
mark the vessel thus, i'll place of dis.
figuring it with plague spots that would
i be constantly rubbed off. Hnthe
shipowners, with two. competent SUR,
'tveyors, so decided, much misery, ur-
certainty, and perpetual lawsuits would
be avoided. While thus thiAking,oI
was, startled by theecry of g Theraliti
is again!''', and q short distance to lee
ward, elevated some sixty feet i9 the.
air, was the great leviathan, gtimly
looking toward the vessel. 2 Az i was
not sure it was only our freeboard il
was viewing, we had all our axes ready
and were fully determined, should the
brute embrace the. Pauline, to chop
away for IT'S back bone, with all our
might; and the wretch might q have
found for once in its life that it had
4 caught q Tartar This statement is
s1rieGy true, and the occurrence was
I witnessed BY my officers, half the crew,
!, and myself; and we are ready at any
time to testify on oath thatit is so, and
that we are not in the least mistaken.
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