ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. | BY 
in Tierra-delfvogo, fovnd and discovered a new passage throvgh 
the great Sovth-sea, and that way sailed rovnd about the 
W orld;”’ etc. 
Off the coast of Sierra Leone: 
“The fift of October we were vnder foure degrees seuen and 
twentie minutes, the same day about noone, there was such a 
noyse in the Bough of our Shippe, that the master, being be- 
hind in the Gallerie, thought that one of the men had fallen 
out of the Fore-ship, or from the Boe-sprit into the sea, but as 
hee looked out over the side of the Ship hee saw the Sea all red, 
as if great store of bloud had been powred into it, whereat hee 
wondred, knowing not what it meant; but afterward hee found, 
that a great Fish or a Sea monster having a horne had there- 
with stricken against the ship With most great strength. For 
when we were in Porto Desire where we set the Ship upon the 
Strand to make it clean, about seven foot under watér, before 
in the Ship, we found a Horne sticking in the Ship, much like 
for thickness and fashion to a common Elephants tooth, not 
hollow, but full; very strong hard Bone, which had entered in- 
to three Plankes of the Ship, that is two thicke Plankes of 
greene and one of Oken wood, and so into a Rib, where it 
turned upward, to our great good fortune, for if it had entered 
between the Ribbes, it would happily have made a greater Hole, 
and have brought both Ship and men in danger to be lost. It 
strucke at least half a foote deep into the Ship and about half a 
foote without, where, with great force it was broken off, by rea- 
son whereof the great monster bled so much.” 
More than a century later C. Mortimer, M. D., records this 
experience : 
“Mr. Bankley shewed me the Horn of a Fish that had pene- 
trated about eight inches into the Timber of a Ship and gave 
me the following Relation of it: ‘His Majrsry’s Ship Leopard, 
having been at the West /ndies and on the Coast of Guzney, was 
ordered by Warrant from the Honorable Vavy-Board, dated Aug. 
18, 1725, to be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth, for Channel- 
Service: Pursuant thereto, she was put into the great Stone- 
dock ; and, in stripping off her Sheathing, the Shipwrights 
found something that was uncommon in her Bottom, about eight 
