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Finally, that the tail above the water was a whole ship-length 
from the /ead instead of from the body, for the Danish Kroppen 
signifies “the body”. Of course I cannot say anything of the 
figures in this edition. 
In the original Danish work of Paun Herbs there is a map of - 
a part of the coast of Greenland and of the Davis’ Straits, called 
Baals Rivier, on which is situated the Danish Colony, the Good 
Hope (Gothaab). As it was generally done in those days, Mr. Bine, 
a brother-missionary of Earpnr’s, drew on his map not only the 
animal but also the vessel in the sea. I give here a facsimile of 
the figure of the animal, without the ship. We distinctly see that 
the animal has rather a serpentlike form with a large head, show- 
ing formidable teeth, an eye with a heavy eye-brow, and a nostril; 
two flappers on the fore-part of the body, the uneven skin, and a 
tail ending in a point. 
On the same map there is also another figure, Sean the ani- 
mal’s tail, after it had plunged 
back into the water. The tail 
is again figured terminating in 
a point. 
We shall do well to observe 
the fact that the figure is an 
accurate illustration of the text 
with regard to the animal blow- 
ing like a whale; the breath which the animal exhales immediately 
after having been under water a long time, is condensed in the 
cold air and forms little curling clouds. 
In the original Danish work of Hans Eenve, entitled 4 Full 
and Particular Relation, etc., of which we have spoken above, 
there is also a figure. Though I have not had the opportunity to 
consult this work, I am thoroughly convinced, that the map of 
Baals Rivier with the two figures of the animal are quite the 
same, true facsimiles. The above mentioned translator drew this 
figure on a reduced scale for his article in the /ustrated London 
News, and as his text is imcorrect, his figure is so too, for he 
changed the rough skin into scales, according to his own trans- 
lation. (See our fig. 21.) 
Afterwards Mr. Lez in his Sea-Monsters Unmasked made use 
of the figure of the Jllustrated London News and so gave his 
readers again an altered figure. For history’s sake I show here a 
true facsimile of the figure as it appeared in the J/ustrated London 
Fig. 20. — The same individual plunging 
back into the water. 
