Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-02

poon," MIR. Young remarked, "anu 4
generally try to keep one on hand. On
this occasion, unfortunately, my har
pOon was on the main deck, or 4 could
have had the fish on board 'a s U
"Anything we could get with the
harpoon." interpOsed Mr.. Devlin, his
talk beginning 70, flow as freely as the
exciting cause "we gathered in the In
terest of sOienee or anybody else"
Amy sOa serpents?" querled the re-
orter gently. h'd ..|a-.'.-
.''Seu serpents L should say so,"
Devlin answered confidently, f'l've
been all over the world since / first
went 70 sea. I've been I'm Greenland,
but not at all seasons OF the year at the
same time. I've been round the Cape
OF Good Hope good many times. The
Niagara saw the biggest sunfsh of the
Cape that ieverI saw or read about"
! Fc'When was tllat?'oa & 'sy'..sagi
t ''In' lS73-in oIs69s--before the war
when she was taking the Japanese to
their own country. ISL rf f9.....
But the sea serpent2" ,.,. ...,..,....., -
Tell him about the sea serpent,
Young" Devlin replied.
1--WE did see something very like a
sea serpent, Mr.. Young said. '"rhat
was on the goth, tire day before we en-
couhteFed the sunfish. .hiItappeared.o ON
the mzzen crosstrees, and IL was prob
ably thirty feet in length. oCIIer gen.
tlemen bcssdes Mr.. .DeVlin saw it,
lit was, in sections" Mr.. Devlin re-
marked, inpatient over the common
place description of his friend, "like "A
rapeworm. couldn't see it all at once,
but each section was-well, let me see
ten or fifteen feet long" u liaf'a'
"What was its color ?" -agilt II :
! t-Brown or black" p s... r.. f g
"a ''Are you sure Itwasn't the remains
of garbage .scOw?' sung one Of the
sailors engaged in cleaning the brass
woIk, a Ia "Pinafore. .-....-v- \
Bring out the bottle of seaweed, !,
Young" cried Devlin, and then turn
ing to the reporter. he said, impressive
! ly:--''Remember, Pm a scientific
cuss." r.lfs- a.s..H tIsgu
The bottle of seaweed was produced.
Ii was reailya very beautiful thing OF
its. kind, SO beautiful in fact that it
would attract general attention and ad-
miration in cabinet of curiositles.
There we're ferns and sea berries and
minute specimens of shrimps and crabs
the size of a pea and fish in size and
shape very like a1whiplash In color
il was brown, purple, variegated. 1t
looked more like snake thana fish.
"What kind of fish is this 20 the re-
porter asked.
1T is like sucker about the head but
its body resembles gar-fsh,' Mr..
Devlin SAID. H1's
''And it's color is zebra-like.'' Mr..
Young added fr
The reporter rose to take his leave.
Before you co." Mr.. Devlin said,
''let me tell you about the meteor we
saw on this voyage. | have seen me-
teors in the Grecian Archipelago-eV-
rywhere-rainlng down all round the
sky, but never saw one shoot up be-
fore"
That is so,'' said Mr. Young. 1t
started. near the horizon"
''On line with the mainmast," in
terrupted Devlin.
cit started near the horizon and
seemed TO follow the path of the milky
wav, upward, upward, describing a
semicircle in the heavens. L never saw
anything more beautiful, and wish
that L could write, so that L might
write about it.''
''It is something for the astronomers
to SETTLE" Devlin answered.
"Goodby," said the reporter
"Goodby, and be sure you give us q
good report" cried a number of voices
after him.