The sun., 1895-01-20
WHAT! NO SEA SERpENTSi
TELL TINS BRoNzED SEA-FARrys
MAN THAT YOU DOUBT THEN
And He VIII Tell You n Tate of Cruisi.r
on the Coast OF Brazil, and show You
HOW Little the Landsmnn knoMa

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How Little the Land-mnn Knows
"Tne ocean of the northeast coast of Brazil.
said the bronzed seafaring man, is a regular
| marine Jungle. What the dense forests and In.
accessible fastnesses OF its vast area arc 10 th,
land of that interesting country the submerged
tanElcs OF coral growth are to the water uff tho
northeast coast of Brazil. II one inght sea
them and thread their unknown labyrinths
such wonders would confront him at every turn
as never existed in any wood swamp or
Jungle on which the sun has ever shonc. Thoss
submarine coral forests the homes OF sea
monsters beyond belief There the sea serpent
lives. There IL brings forth and rears it's young
There, and there only. When hear landsmcn
laugh and deridc the idea OF there being such
thing as II sea serpent pity them aud say
Alas. what pent-up lives you live. How
narrow Is the limit OF the things you know. II
you might only go to the Brazilian coast OF
Cane san Rogue. in latitude. say. 90 13' north,
and longitude 35' west! Belay me! But what
sights you'd see"
mo sea serpent2 I thought so once myself.
| don't know that should pity those pent-up
landsmen, after all, for IL had not shipped 40
able seaman the bark Pauline OF London,
Capt. Drewnr, on that July OF 1875, 1t Is likely
that | would be just pent-up and ignorant
now as they are.
=" Know you, there are no ports on that part Of
the Brazilian coast Off Cape san Rogue: no
place for a ship to go in, II there was any
thing there that ship should have business in
going In to do. But the bark Pauline went In
there Singular about that, sir. We were look
ing for whales incidentally. If. in those days
after doing our legitimate business we might
manage to overcome whale, then We were just
so much in, from the Captain down. So on this
trip, having discharged what we had on board,
and taken what we to take on, Capt.
Drewar said to the first mate. and heard him,
Mate said he, we have three days to
spare. What do you think of sailin' up and
lookn over the mysteries 2
Now, mind you, the mysteries is tho north
east coast of Brazil, where there are no ports.
and where every sailor knows the sea serpent
has its only home.
"'Cap'n.' says tho mate. touching his hat
why not2'
"'Then it's gor says the Cap'n.
80 The Roenest kind, sirv says the mate.
And we sailed up along the coast. Being Q
man who was not a sailor through necessity.
may have been more alert as to the things that
might occur on this recreation voyage than
the ordinary seaman doing his routine duty
a-shipboard for his living Anyhow. one day. as
were off Cape San Rogue. in an unknown
sea far as commercial interests are concerned,
the lookout shouted:
Now, spose It had been waterspout,
What's a waterspout2 There's nothing in a
aG @
was q waterspout or an cart rthqnake Asa mat
ter Of fact, think would h'. psen glad II It
had been an all-enveloping e4rthquake, so far
as was personally concerned. for / was way
down in the dumps, IT was becnnsc of that l
threw me overheard. and I-hu, lee that pass.
".vW.SSterspont:Y,, shouted tns s lookout
lookout.
there what the lookout said was a water
spout. 1t wasn't a spout though. 1t seemed to
shot up as high as sbS mast
there a moment like a huge watery column
level instantly rose again to s its tTemeDdous Se U
height glstened in the sun like a lofty white
sWayed fe ali IN oncS sh fs
to, the water being followed by the upward
Of Of sea s
black objects moved here and there. quickly,
ana without appGreht h nd,rad aim +ho
&" Then he seized his glass and gazed through
1t at the strange affair. His eyes had scarcely
by his glass, when saw him turn pale. But he
BY the S'so nronss ,SS Of Septunes trident said he
deep, armored with hideous bony scales, in NOR;
and trfm M hiPs NS NGt combat! Ths levi;
pent,rlike sparrow swooped down upon by
hs"s Size which ThaSa I've wssls nqgsr sss sesn fs
sav AL my forty RI, grsb of sealing ns hs
fatfSoms S s'I long Would s scarcely once % go round.
and yet the serpent is coiled about IT full score
9r s ns b the TO ps9 I1 @ h
OF the free parts OF the serpent, this one now
with an awful barb They rise IAN and faii tyt By the
terrible impulse Of the serpents assault upon
a. W a n MD ri drt
rush of inipeling waters! The black objects arc
spectators Of their mighty fellows deadly en-.
vironment! Hark" the Captain still with tho
glass to his eye, and growing paler and paler.
" was not necessary for us to hearken.
deaf man could almost have heard the sounds
that came to us over the sea from the scene OF
that awful contest Boom. booml boom! Like
the hoarse intonations OF q saluting cannon;
,ns BY the rusty key Of hDayy yPnsss locker
that serpent's coil has bust the whale! Three
times tho great leyiathnns tremendous bulk
they sink-the horrible serpent has gone be-
low TO gorge his mighty plunderr
Seasoned as he was by forty years afoat, and
dSmiIiSr S With IT, HppSng things the b3undes'
In the excitement following the Captains col
lapse all sayethe fetching OF him towas forgot
snd ii s s he ot whales f %
had been terror-stricken witnesses OF the sea
hp fdpSre IN i c Gapan haa
ing TO his description OF them, any one of
these whales would have been an unheard-of
prize. But they had slipped away and were out
of sight
"'We'll chase them. said the Captain. I
will not leave these mysterious seas until kill
u whale!
so We sailed in the presumed wake OF tho
whales. Two days We sailed. Not sight or
trace of whale. Then the Captain changed his
course and sailed sou'west- The third day
sighted something. At first sight and for long
time as we approached II, we took 10 for the prO-
jecting summit OF n coral reef formed like flat
tened pyramid, and covering many yards Of the
oceans surface. In height IL rose, as IL seemed
to me, almost to the elevation of our main-
mast. No would have sailed by IL with
out comment or further thought, bue
lust as our course brought IL about hum
dred feet a-p0rt there was a sudden
In the mass Ii began 20 unfold, and
10 our horror We saw the frightful head OF the
sea serpent rear itself and shoot upward until
the herce eyes OF the monster glared down st
US from tremendous height. Before the Cap
tam could shout an order the serpent sank Like
2 iaillnS meteor into the sea- and with roaring