3520 The Zoologist— Mav, 1873. 



We have only to add to this narration of what we saw ourselves 

 the following instances of its being seen by other people, of the 

 correctness of which we have no doubt: — 



The ferrymen on each side at Kylerhea saw it pass rapidly 

 through on the evening of the 21st, and heard the rush of the water: 

 they were surprised, and thought it might be a shoal of porpoises, 

 but could not comprehend their going so quickly. 



Finlay Macrae, of Bundaloch, in the parish of Kintail, was within 

 the mouth of Lochourn on the 21st, with other men in his boat, 

 and saw the creature at about the distance of one hundred and 

 fifty yards. 



Two days after we saw it, Alexander Macmillan, boat-builder at 

 Dornie, was fishing in a boat in the entrance of Lochduich, half- 

 way between Druidag and Caslledonan, when he saw the animal, 

 near enough to hear the noise and see the ripple it made in rushing 

 along in the sea. He says that what seemed its head was followed 

 by four or more lumps, or " half-rounds," as he calls them, and that 

 they sometimes rose and sometimes sank all together. He estimated 

 its length at not less than between sixty and eighty feet. He saw 

 it also on two subsequent days in Lochduich. On all these occa- 

 sions his brother Farquhar was with him in the boat, and they were 

 both much alarmed and pulled to the shore in great haste. 



A lady at Duisdale, in Skye, a place overlooking the part of the 

 Sound which is opposite the opening of Lochourn, said that she 

 was looking out with a glass when she saw a strange object on the 

 sea which appeared like eight seals in a row. This was just about 

 the time that we saw it. 



We were also informed that about the same time it was seen from 

 the island of Eigg, between Eigg and the mainland, about twenty 

 miles to the south-west of the opening of Lochourn. 



We have not permission to mention the names in these two last 

 instances. 



John Macraf. 

 David Twopenv. 



PS. The writers of the above account scarcely expect the public 

 to believe in the existence of the creature which they saw. Rather 

 than that, ihey look for the disbelief and ridicule to which the sub- 

 ject always gives rise, partly on account of the animal having been 

 pronounced to be a snake, without any sufficient evidence, but 



