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^^^J'f"^^ *°'', "V"Y ^i"'"' ^""^ ^'"'^ '■" <^''e q^^eerest tlun^ I ever 

 Sve coI^Ih '' T "^'^^ ^°"'^^"° ^^^ ^-^S'^*- I^ i« ^^««t difficult to 

 head aX S ^'j^l^"'''"'^""' °^ ""^ "^>^* "^ *1^« ^^'-t^^'- The 

 lenlth fl . tli«,«reature we set down at about six feet in 



S;.;fu;dTeXV"^°''' " ^^^'^-^^^^^^'^^ between eighty 



tre'e.^^' neck in thickness equalled the trunk of a moderate-sized 



strla^^ed^wl'wl T^- ""'"' '^,^ ^^^"^ ^^'^^'^ ^^ "^^^^^ black colour, 



sranf pif omfbodr^^ ""^'^- ' '^ ^"^ ^^^°^^^^^ ^^^■ 



'Such is the rough account of the sea-serpent, and all the 

 N w SouT W.V" '""H ^r g.-Lyster in En^^land, Malcl " 

 Halifax "" ^'' r^egnmnt, and the remainder in 



' W. Sullivan. 

 ' A. Maclachlan. 

 ' G. P. Malcolm. 

 ' B. O'Neal Lyster. 

 * Henky Ince.' 

 I now mention a very important case, given as it was in an 

 official report to the Lords of the Admiralt^, by Captain M'Q h^ 

 vhxch gave rise to a great amount of discussL, and fJeS 

 rSer" '''' '"'^"■' '' ^'^ '^^^ '' ''' publication in 



' Her Majesty's Ship Dcedalus 

 .Q. T 1 'Hamoaze, Ocfoierll, 1848 ' 



bir — In reply to your letter of this date, requirin^r information 

 as to the truth of a statement published in' the Tz^/e/ w ',^^ 

 of a sea-serpent seen from Her Majesty's Ship Dcedalus ISv 

 iny command, on her passage from the East Lie I hav tl e 

 honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Con 

 missionersof the Admiralty, that at five o'clock p^m on he 6th 

 of Angus last, in latitude 24° 44' S., and longitude 9° 22' E tl e 

 weather dark and cloudy, wind fresh from the N.W w^^t'h a 



N E bv'p "^'^^ ^T '^'' ^•^■' '^' ^^"P ''' *be port tack hladh,: 

 ^.E. by E., something very unusual was seen by Mr Sartoris^ 

 mdshipman rapidly approaching the ship from below the beam 

 The circumstance was immediately reported by him to the offic r 

 of the watch, Lieutenant Edgar Drummond, with whom and Mr 

 William Barett the master, I was at that time wa ki^o The 

 quarter-deck. The ship's company were at supper ^ ' 



On our attention being called to the object, it was discovered 

 four'fr. '"'?'? 'i'^''''' ^^^b head and shoulders kept about 

 four feet constantly above the surface of the sea, and as nearly as 

 we could approximate, by comparing it with what ourn a n top 



