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when coasting off Brazil. On this occasion the 

 late Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, a member of the 

 Council of the London Zoological Society, and the 

 late Mr. M. J. Nichol, one-time assistant-director of the 



Ribbon Fish — often mistaken for sea-serpent 



Cairo Zoo, actually beheld a turtle-shaped head rear itself 

 above the waves on a neck fully 6 ft. long. At the base 

 of the neck appeared to be a fin, but the serpent — like all 

 of its class — exhibited the characteristic coyness, and after 

 following the ship for a few minutes at about eight 



