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face, and glared at him with its blue and angry 

 eyes. In this extremity the mate called out to 

 the captain, who luckily was near, and who 

 came and released him by cutting in two the 

 arms of the squill with a large knife which he 

 had with him. Had it not been for this inter- 

 ference, the man would have been killed and his 

 body fed upon afterwards. In the Mediterra- 

 nean these creatures are found, but of an inferior 

 size. They spread themselves on the ground, 

 and, when persons are bathing, instances have 

 been known of their being seized and killed by 

 the squills. 



There is another monster found in the West 

 Indies called the sea-eagle, because in its rage 

 and anger it sometimes elevates itself with such 

 force as to raise the sea into a foam, and makes 

 a noise like thunder. One of the species, called 

 by sailors the sea-devil, was taken at Barbadoes, 

 and was so large that it required seven pairs of 

 oxen to draw it on shore. Sharks and rays, 

 which are nearly allied to them, are known to 

 have been caught of the enormous length of 

 forty feet. 



You may well ask, What can be the use of 

 these and many other monsters of the deep ? I 



