Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16
ANOTHER IMMENSE sEA-MoNsTER.

(says the New York World) the
World published an amazing sthry ST
a monster marine-frog seen by the off
GERS and crew of an English steamer
in the Straits of Malacca, and now
Captain Drewar, of the bark Pauline,
Of London, who has just arrived at
Cork from a long voyage, favors the
public with the following account of
an ocean marvel:
Bark Pauline, July 8, 1875, latitude
5 deg. l3 min. north, longitude 35 deg.
west, Cape San Rogue, northeast coast
of Brazil, distance twenty miles, at
eleven NJ, the weather fine and clear,
wind and sea moderate, observed some
black spots on the water, and whit
ish pillar some thirty feet high above
them. At the first sight | took all to
be breakers, as the sea was splashing
up fountain-like about them, and the
pillar a pinnacle rock, bleached with
the sun, but the pillar fell with a
splash and a similar one rose. They
rose and fell alternately i'll quick sue
cession, and good glasses showed me
| it was monster sea-scrpent coiled
twice around a large sperm whale.
The head and tail parts, each about
thirty teot long, were acting as levers,
twisting itself and its victim round
with great velocity. They sank out of
sight every two minutes, coming to-
the surface still revolving; and the
struggles of the whale and two other
whales that were near, frantic with
excitement, made the sea in their Vi
cinity like a boiling caldron; and a
loud confused noise was distinctly
heard. This strange occurrence lasted
some fifteen minutes, and finished with
the tail portion of the whale being ell
cvated straight in the air, then waving
backward and forward, and lashing
the water turiously in the last death
struggle, when the whole body diSap-
appeared from our view, going down
head-iUremost to the bottom, where, no
doubt, it was gored at the serpent's
leisure; and that monster of monsters
may have been many months in a state
of coma, digesting the huge mouthful.
Then two of the largest sperm whales
that | have ever seen moved slowl y |
thence toward the vessel, their bodies |
more than usually elevated out Of the
water, and not spouting or making the
least noise. but seemingly quite para
lived with fear; indeed, cold shiver
went through my own frame on be-
holking the last agonizing struggle of
the poor whale, that had seemed as
helpless in the coils of the vicious
monster as bird in the talons Of a
hawk. Allowing for two coils round
the whale, | think the serpent was
about 160 or ITO feet long, and seven
or eight feet in girth. 1t was in color
much like conger-eel, and the head,
from the mouth being open, appeared
the largest part Of its body. 1t is Gu
rious that the whale, that lives on the
smallest food of any fish i'll the ocean,
should itself be but meal for another
monster; for | think~st as feasible that
the serpent swallowed the whale as
that boa-constrictor can consume q
whole bullock.
| am aware that few believe in the
existance of the great sea-serpent.
People think that as So many vessels
are constantly on the ocean it would
be seen oftener. But the northeast
coast of Brazil, noted for its monster
reptiles, is peculiarly adapted for the
growth of sea-monsters. The temper
ature of the air and water is seldom