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Danish at Kopenhagen in 1740, entitled: “4 Lull and Particular 
Relation of his voyage to Greenland, as a Missionary, on the 
year 1734”. 
I have not had the opportunity of consulting this work, but the 
passage about the sea-serpent runs most probably as follows: 
“Anno 1734, July. On the 6th. appeared a very terrible sea- 
animal, which raised itself so high above the water, that its head 
reached above our main-top. It had a long sharp snout, and blew 
like a whale, had broad, large flappers, and the body was, as it 
were, covered with a hard skin, and it was very wrinkled and 
uneven on its skin; moreover on the lower part it was formed 
like a snake, and when it went under water again, it cast itself 
backwards and in so doing it raised its tail above the water, a 
whole ship-length from its body: That evening we had very bad 
weather.” } 
In the same year there appeared a German edition of this work, 
entitled <Ausfihrliche und Wakrhafte Nachricht vom Anfange und 
Fortgange der Groenlindischen Mission, etc., Hamburg, 1740, 4°, 
which I have not been able to consult either. 
I don’t know whether there is an English or a French edition. 
In the Jllustrated London News of Oct. 28, 1848, the writer of 
the article Hvidences of the former appearance of the Sea-Serpent 
translated the passage from a Danish copy of Eerpn’s Pull and 
Particular Relation in the British Museum. Evidently he was not 
very well up in the Danish language, for his translation is partly 
incorrect. [ am convinced that in the original text EerpE does not 
mention the exact locality where he saw the animal. The translator 
tells us that it was off the south coast of Greenland, which of 
course is incorrect, as Greenland has no south coast. Of “sea-animal’”’ 
he makes “sea-monster”’, for “above our main-top” he has “on a 
level with our main-top’, for “it blew like a whale’ he has “it 
blew water almost like a whale’, for “its body was as it were 
covered with a hard skin” he has “its body was covered with 
shell-fish, or scales’, and some parts are not translated at all. 
In 1738 Hans EcEpr wrote a Journal of his mission, in which 
he did not mention the meeting, but his son Paun HEexpr in the 
continuation of this Journal, entitled Continuation af Relationerne 
betreffende den Groenlandske Mission, Kjoebenhavn, 1741, gives a 
full account of it, which we have translated above word for word. 
I have not had the means of consulting the German translation 
of this work, entitled Fortgesetzte Relationen die Groentlidndische 
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