326 DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



SEA MONSTERS, 



and they were all genuine and to be found in any 

 natural history. 



A SEA SERPENT 



from the North Pacific Coast proved to be a fish 

 and not a snake. A "horrible sea devil" from the 



THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF A FISH, THAT THE NEWS- 

 PAPERS ANNOUNCED AS A SEA-SERPENT 



Long Island Sound was the angler fish, common 

 to naturalists but seldom seen by inland newspaper 

 reporters. 



A FAKIR 



is one who intentionally deceives, but an ignorant 

 person or one whose poetic and romantic nature 

 causes him to see everything surrounded by an at- 

 mosphere of fancy, although he is an inaccurate 

 observer, cannot justly be accused of 



