The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-23
THE SEA SERPENT.

the nose, then eight feet Of snaky,
tapering body-these go to make up
the sea monster whose stuffed body
lies in the upper berth of the cabin OF
First Officer G. J. Duggan of the steam
schooner Navarro, which arrived yes
terday from a trip to the Clipperton
Islands, says the San Francisco Chro-
nicle of October II. Duggan has no
dreams, and even now that the vessel
is in port, is not afraid of mistaking
his dead monster for live one, so he
will keep it.
This peculiar fish or serpent is but
pigmy, according to Captain Miller of
the schooner. That doughty seaman
tells tales of school of sea serpents,
probably on their way from the spawn
ing grounds in the unsailed southern
seas to haunts off the coast for next
summers outing season. They Sported
about the vessel as she lay at head
moorings in the sheltered bay where
she was loading guano, showing heads
like that of the yOungster, magnlhed
to "a inches in diameter, and colllng
80 feet of sea-green body about the
white caps. To return to the captured
specimen.
The stuffed body suggests mann
moth eel some five inches in diameter
at the neck, tapering back toward the
tail. The head is almost like that of
st. Bernard dog, lacking that express
sion of good nature prompting KIND
" patting. The head is about 9 inches
in diameter, bulges TO a wide forehead
and broad jaws, suggestive OF deter
mination and tenacity of purpose. Al
though the nose comes almost to
point, suggesting the cutWater OF
clipper ship the contraction does not
interfere with the size of the month.
This, when opened, is large enough to
| take in a mans head. 1t is lined with
dangerous looking teeth. In addition
to the usual two sets, from the center
of the roof of the mouth depends
tooth an inch long, tapering from a d.
ameter of three-eights of an inch at
the base to needle point. Stranger
still. at the end of the throat is found
another set of teeth, placed in two
| Jaws, which are exactly alike, the teeth
slanting backward as if to aid deglut1-
ton.
The eyes are small and round, green
and demoniacal, set close together al
most at the tip Of the nose. The ears
are not of the pink shell variety; tho
small, they are set we'll back on the
head.
From the tail of the monster, start
ing from a point about two feet from
the end, extend in all directions ten
drills or feelers, which seem capable OF
motion in all directions, and might
perform a variety of uses, from form
ing a cushion on which the monster
might sit down to acting as the hukes
of a propeller.
All during the time the Navarro
was lying at ClippertOn Island, accord
ing to the seamen's stories, she was
surrounded by school of sea serpents
of this character.
Mate Duggan says of the find:
AT 100 a. m. the anchor watch re
ported that the vessel seemed to be
going out to sea at the rate of three
land a half or four miles an hour.
went around to see what the matter
was, and found that the chain was
fast to the anchor, but the vessel was
working steadily out to sea. came &c
the conclusion that some monster o.
1.-The deep, most likely a large devil fish
had hooked on to our head mOOrlngS
and was running away with them.
Il had a new finch line bent on &c
1.-The buoy of the mooringS and took this
to the windlass and tried to heave III
the anchor We only succeeded II
swapping the line in twain. L dropped
a lead and found we were in 12O faith
oms of water, whereas we had beer
moored in 40 fathoms. Having only
the 40 fathoms of chain out, we los
it and an anchor and made our wa!
back to where we had been mOored.
This S-foot pet of mine here We
caught the next day. He came easy
but we had to play with him an hOu1
and forty-five minutes before we go
him in the schooner. And he had al
the deck to himself for long time af
ter he was landed. The sun finally be
gan to deaden him, and few rap: