Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-15
CAPTAIN GREEN HATH SAID IT. Hand.to.Hand Encounter or Hat
 eeras With LOng-Armed Marine Monsters.

CAPTAIN GHEEN HATH SAID ITs A Hand-to-Hand Encounter or Hat
 eeras With LOng.Armed Marine
 Monsters.
 From the Philadelphia Times.l
 Captain Gheen, of the schooner Abby Gheen, now lying at Bulson street wharf, Camden, saw strange things of Cape Hat terss on his voyage to this port. He does not claim to have seen the sea serpent, but he did see a number of monsters of the deep that put all well credited sea stories in the shade. The captain is man whose veracity is not doubted. The captain brought his vessel from Rio de Janeiro, and 1t was when twenty miles of Cape Hatteras that he ran into school of sea monsters such as he had never before seen.
 The monsters were sighted by one of the crew. They were nearly a hundred yards ahead of the vessel and were apparently rushing toward her. When first seen by the sailors they thought the ship was running dnto a floating island, some of which are oft on seen at sea- They soon changed their minds, however, when they got closer and saw school of big fish that no one on board could recognize as having seen before. The school opened to let the ship pass, and then at once closed in and followed her. They foated all around her and greatly i'm. peded her progress.
 Although the vessel was going at e speed of seven knots an hour, the monsters fol- lowed along in it's wake, and several more daring ones seemed to clutch hold of the vessels side and let themselves be carried along. After they had followed the boat for several hours the crew began to grow uneasy as to their safety and called upon the cap tain, who heretofore had not been aware of the chase.
 He sent for his glass, and, going aft, ma de 0f tho "a hao resembling @ low, rocky island. He said they were larger than the average sized sharks, being about ten feet in length and varying from the size of bucket to tub in circumference. They seemed to be running 0 race and were having great battle among themselves.
 They had four long arms, on the ends of of an ape. These arm like things extended from each side of the body. Discovering that they were now species of fish, he im- mediately communicated the fact to the first mate, with orders to try and capture some of l the strange monsters.
 The mate gave orders to the crew, who were more or less frightened, but were wait. ing the chance to ''skser" the brutes, and when they were told of the captains orders they nearly jumped out of their shoes. The boat was searched for weapons, and soon the SASSn VesS oSsoHSSe WAeA ne. FSSs - fish hooks and every other kind of imple- ment used in catching fish.
 The boat hooks were first used in their at- tempt to catch the fish, but unsucoessfully The fish seemed to know what was needed oi them, and they used their "hands" to protect themselves from being caught. Groups oi two and three of the monsters would grab the rod of the boat hook and pull 1t away. Eight of these hooks were taken from the sailors. The arms of the fish were about six feet long, said Captain Gheen.
 The sailors became alarmed, thinking that some i'll omen had caused the serpents to fol low the ship, and they thought they were going to be lost. They told the captain that they thought the ship would never reach port. Some rushed to the forecastle and others to the captains cabin in their endeav- ors to escape from the supposed ''Jonahs." 1 By this time the fish had become more daring, and would swim alongside the boat and grab the sail tenions and traces. At last the captain became so exasperated at the men that he ordered them to cast the lines which they use in catching drum and stur- geon. This the crew reluctantly did. The lines were baited with huge pieces of eod- fish and cast over the side. They were handled by the fish the same as they handled the boat hook. They would grab the line with their ''hands" and try to tear them apart, and if one was not successful two pr three would como to hia aid.
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