266 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS , [N°. 1154 
LIS. — 1845, July 28. — (Zoologist, 1847, p. 1606). 
“The Rev. Mr. P. W. Deinbolt, Archdeacon of Molde, gives 
the following account of one, which was seen last summer near 
Molde. The 28th. of July, 1845, J. C. Lund, bookseller and 
printer; G. S. Krogh, merchant; Christian Flang, Lund’s appren- 
tice, and John Elgenses, labourer, were out on Romsdale-fjord , 
fishing. The sea was, after a warm, sunshiny day, quite calm. 
About seven o'clock in the afternoon, at a little distance from the 
shore, near the ballast place and Molde Hove, they saw a long 
marine animal, which slowly moved itself forward, as it appeared 
to them, with the help of two fins, on the fore-part of the body 
nearest the head, which they judged by the boiling of the water 
on both sides of it. The visible part of the body appeared to be 
between forty and fifty feet in length, and moved in undulations, 
like a snake. The body was round and of a dark colour, and 
seemed to be several ells (an ell two feet) in thickness. As they 
discerned a waving motion in the water behind the animal, they 
concluded that part of the body was concealed under water. That 
it was one connected animal they saw plainly from its movement. 
When the animal was about one hundred yards from the boat, 
they noticed tolerably correctly its fore-part, which ended in a 
sharp snout; its colossal head raised itself above the water in the 
form of a semi-circle; the lower part was not visible. The colour 
of the head was dark brown and the skin smooth; they did not 
notice the eyes, or any mane or bristles on the throat. When the 
serpent came about a musket-shot near, Lund fired at it, and 
was certain the shots hit it in the head. After the shot it dived, 
but came up immediately. It raised its neck in the air, like a 
' snake preparing to dart on his prey. After he had turned and got 
his body in a straight line, which he appeared to do with great 
difficulty, he darted like an arrow against the boat. They reached 
the shore, and the animal, perceiving it had come into shallow 
water, dived immediately and disappeared in the deep. Such is 
the declaration of these four men, and no one has cause to question 
their veracity, or imagine that they were so seized with fear that 
they could not observe what took place so near them. There are 
not many here, or on other parts of the Norwegian coast, who 
longer doubt the existence of the sea-serpent. The writer of this 
narrative was a long time sceptical, as he had not been so fortun- 
ate as to see this monster of the deep; but after the many ac- 
counts he has read, and the relations he has received from credible 
