New-York tribune., 1905-06-18
4 Institute of
and Sciences

see two huge greenish eyes bigger than dinner
plates goggling greedilv him the gunwale of
his boat-a warning that presently frighful snake
like arm provided with powerful suckers for Cling1ng
will be thrown about him, dragging him overheard
and into the depths, to be devoured at leisure.
Most appropriate it will be at this point to tell
the story of the bark Pauline, returning home from
the Indian seas in 1875. Her mate and crew made
oath before a magistrate in a police court of Liver
pool to the effect that on July of that year in
latitude five degrees and thirteen minutes south and
longitude thirty-fve degrees west they had OBJ
served three large spern-whales, one OF which was
wrapped around the body by two turns of what
appeared to be a huge serpent. The head and tail
of the serpent seemed to have length beyond the
coils of about thirty feet. 1t Wh1rled the whale
round and round for fifteen minutes, and then
suddenly dragged the unfortunate cetacean head
first to the bottom.
Now. if such testimony, given by number of
individuals who signed their to the affidavit,
was offered in behalf of anything else than sea-
serpent. it would be accepted pretty generally as
worthy of belief 1t seems altogether probable that
the mariners least thought that they were telling
the truth and it must be admitted that sailor
knows whale when he sees AS for the party
of the other part, the description one would think
could apply only to a Caamarv which, if this theory
be correct must have been engaged IN fight with
the cetacean. The squid must have been huge
TO which belonged fragment of a tentacle picked
up on the northwest coast by DR.. Dali of the Smith
sonian Institution. From the size of the cup-like
suckers the fragment 1t was reckoned that the
entire tentacle hardly could have been les than
eighty feet in length
Like the common sQuid. whose skeleton furnishes
substance for Canary-birds to sharpen their bills
upon the huge calamary swns backward, dragging
its tentacles behind, accomplishing locomotlon by
forcing water out through sort of siphon, and
sometimes erecting its tail provded with horizontal
rudder-ike flanges) a considerable distance above
the surface of the sea. If under such cir
cumstances the tail almost inevitably would be
mistaken for a head, while the enormously long
arms trailing snuously behind would appear to
represent snaky tail Make allowance for a little
imagination on the part of the observer, and you
have the sea-serpent, all intents and purposes,
complete.
Here then we have entirely possible sea-
serpent approximately equal in size to the monster
of which have heard so much corresponding IN
most important respects to the creature reported
by so many fairly reliable witnesses, and which
has the great advantage of being animal actually
known to exist at the present time. The mere tact
that it is mollusk instead of reptile, and that It's
head NAV have been mistaken for its tail, does not
initiate against its aCCeptability realization
in fact of the quasi-abulous hauner of the mysterl
Gus depths of the 1t already has been proved
beyond doubt that the giant squid is the original
of the tabled kraken famed in Norwegian legends,
of which more marvellous stories told than ever
were related in regard to the sea-serpent.
The most authentic evidence record in behalf