Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1919 — SURE IT WAS SEA SERPENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SURE IT WAS SEA SERPENT

©fficersof Two British Vessels Convinced They Had Sight of Genuine Monster of the Deep. It was on August 6, 1848, that H. M. 8. Daedalus, on her way from the Cape of Good Hope to Stz Helena, came'-near a singular looking object In the water. Captain to bring his vessel close to it, but the state of the wind prevented a nearer approach than 200 yards. Officers watching carefully through their glasses could trace eyes, mouth and

nostril in the mass which floated before them. It looked like a long lizard or serpent. « Captain M’Quhae’s report caused a great deal of excitement, and although scienti.stsegdeavored-to-showthat there could.be no” such thing as a seaserpent, the popular imagination would not be calmed. Nine years later’the captain and officers of the .Castillian, sailing from Bombay to Liverpool, and about ten miles away from St. Helena, sighted “a huge marine animal, which reared its head out of the water, 20 yards from the ship.* Its head was shaped like a nun-buoy, and we (the ship’s officers) conclude that the monster must feet long. T'(the captain) am convinced it belonged to the serpent tribe.”

As the Serpent Looked.