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himself the liberty to tell his readers that “when the animal, which 
was covered with scales, plunged back into the water, it did so 
with the belly turned ee 
In the same year appeared a second German edition (translated 
from the French) entitled Beschreibung und Naturgeschichte von 
Groenland, Berlin, 1763, in which we even read that the animal 
lay upon the water with rts belly turned upwards when it plunged 
back into the water! 
In many respects the figure of Mr. Brine and Hexpe’s text com- 
plete each other. 
Let us now have a look at both the text und the figures. We 
may do this most safely, being convinced of the truth of Hcxpn’s 
words and Brne’s figure. Eeupe “was a truthful, pious, and single- 
minded man, possessing considerable powers of observation, and a 
genuine love of natural history; his statements are modest, accurate, 
and free from exaggeration. His illustrations bear the unmistakable 
signs of fidelity.” (Lez, Sea-Monsters Unmasked, p. 65.) 
From what has been said of the animal, seen by EcrpE, we 
gather that it appeared on the 6th. of July, 1734, in fine weather 
before the Danish Colony the Good Hope, Davis Straits, Greenland ; 
(EeEDE says: “the following evening we had very bad weather’, 
so we may conclude that:) the weather was fine, when the animal 
was seen; it had a considerable length, say a hundred feet, and 
was much thicker than a snake of those dimensions would be, say 
some eight feet; it raised its head, its neck and the fore-part of 
its trunk high above the surface of the water, it had a long, sharp 
snout, it blew like a whale (the breath of an animal as large as 
a whale must of course have been distinctly visible in those cold 
regions; I also wish to fix the reader’s attention on the figure 
where the animal is not spouting a stream of water, but where 
its breath is condensed by the cold, and forms little curling clouds 
of vapour). It had broad and large flappers. HEarpn does not say: 
it had broad flappers on the forepart of the trunk; as Ecxpr does 
not state that the figure, made by Mr. Bine aboard his ship, 
directly after the appearance of the animal, is not truthful, we 
must consider it as being correct; so the animal had two large 
and broad flappers on the fore-part of the trunk. The body seemed 
to be covered with a hard skin. For truth’s sake Earp wrote 
seemed, which is well done; for a hard skin or crust would not 
have been wrinkled when the animal bends its body. Like all 
known air-breathing sea-animals of those dimensions the animal 
