Queer Game 



tusk; it is possible that it is used as a weapon, though 

 this is unlikely." 



" I have seen a rival of the narwhal in the Indian 

 Ocean twenty feet in length," interrupted a listener. 

 " It happened this way : I was bound down the 

 Madagascar coast in a trip to South Africa, and 

 was sitting on the quarter-deck with the captain, 

 and had just made the remark that there was not 

 a sail in sight, when I chanced to turn my eyes 

 back to where I had been looking, and there, cours- 

 ing along, was a sail. For a second I thought I 

 must be laboring under a delusion; but the cap- 

 tain also saw it and called for his glass. It was 

 a leg of mutton sail, apparently on a long boat a 

 mile away, or perhaps more, and, the strangest part 

 of it, was moving along as if propelled by a stiff 

 breeze, while we could distinctly see that there was 

 no wind within sight. By this time the native part of 

 the crew had seen the stranger and were gathering at 

 the rail, talking to each other in a mysterious way, 

 while occasionally one would throw his hands or arms 

 upward. The sail, when first observed, was passing 

 to our left, but soon hauled on what must have 'been 

 the wind and came directly for us. 



" There was something extremely uncanny in it 

 all, and it was easy to see that the men, a superstitious 

 lot, were ill at ease. The captain, after looking at the 

 object through the glass, handed it to me with the 

 remark that, if it was a boat, she was sailing hull 



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