300 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [ 1850. | 
when, to his mind, the fact of his existence has been so clearly 
proved by numerous eye-witnesses, many of whom were too intel- 
ligent to be deceived, and too honest to be doubted.” 
The reader will remember the splendid hoax of the New York 
Tribune (1852); now Mr. Roserr Frortep in his Tagsberichte wber 
die Kortschritte der Natur- und Heilkunde, no 486, already doubted 
this report. After some time (n°. 491) he communicated to his 
readers that according to the Philadelphia Bulletin, the whole was 
a hoax, but to show them how firm a believer Mr. Frorizp, 
nevertheless, remained, he adds: 
“This, however, will not prevent us from bestowing further 
attention on the subject of the Sea-Serpent.” 
24. — 18502 — The following evidence may be called one of 
the more interesting which tell about the habits of the sea-serpent. 
In the Zoologist of 1862, p. 7850, we read: 
“Off Madeira, on board R. M. 8. Thames. Made acquaintance 
with a Captain Christmas, of the Danish Navy, a proprietor in 
Santa Cruz, and holding some office about the Danish Court. He 
told me he once saw a sea-serpent between Iceland and the Faroe: 
Islands. He was lymg in to a gale of wind, in a frigate of which 
he had the command, when an immense shoal of porpoises rushed 
by the ship, as if pursued, and lo and behold a creature with a 
neck moving like that of a swan, about the thickness of a man’s 
waist, with a head like a horse, raised itself slowly and gracefully 
from the deep, and seeing the ship it immediately disappeared 
again, head foremost, like a duck diving. He saw it only for a 
few seconds; the part above water seemed about eighteen feet in 
length. He is a singularly intelligent man, and by no means one 
to allow his imagination to run away with him. — Stephen Cave, 
M. P. for Shoreham; 35, Wilson Place, April 29, 1861, m a 
letter to Mr. Gosse.” 
It is a very remarkable fact that we meet here the sea-serpent between 
Iceland and the Far-Oer, a place situated between the two most fre- 
quented parts of the North Atlantic, i. e. the coasts of Norway and the 
coasts of the United States. But it is not the first time; the readers will 
