Bulletin, Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. IV 



Plate 103. 



Reproduction of a fifteenth century painting in the chapel of St. Thomas, at Malos, 



France, said to have been placed there by the captain of a sailing vessel, 



in commemoration of his ship 's escape from an attack by a 



gigantic octopus. (From Denys Montfort, Histoire 



Naturelle des Mollusques, tome II, Paris.) 



