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ship, he drew in only a gigantic sea-weed of twenty feet in length, 
which really had the form, attributed to the fantastic reptile. ‘This 
indirect refutation, however, does not discourage the Rear-Admiral 
Harrington (imagine, a Rear-Admiral!) who in a second article in 
the Zimes, repeats that he is sure of the fact, that he has seen 
the sea-serpent twenty fathoms from his ship, that he has recognized 
it, as if he would have recognized a whale on the side of a por- 
poise, that his wife, who was on board, has seen it with him, 
as had his two officers, in short, that he will come to London, 
as soon as he has terminated his business at Liverpool, and will 
furnish all evidences demanded by science and scepticism. If he 
had only brought home the animal’s tail or one of its fins!” 
ES2. — 1858, January 26, — The Jdlustrated London News 
of March 20, 1858, mentions: | 
“The following is a report made by Captain Suckling, of the 
ship Carnatic, of London, of a Sea Serpent seen by him between 
the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena: — On the 26th of January, 
in latitude 19°10'S., long 10°6’ W., about 5 minutes after noon, 
my attention was called by Captain Shuttleworth, a passenger on 
board the Carnatic to a large spar sticking out of the water one end 
some thirty feet above the level of the sea. It appeared to me to be 
the lower mast of some wrecked vessel, and having the glass in my 
hand, with which I had been looking at an American vessel in 
sight, I examined it narrowly. It seemed to be passing very rapidly 
to the eastward, having altered its bearings several points in the 
course of a few minutes, when it suddenly disappeared, and came 
up shortly afterwards astern of the ship. It was seen by all those 
on deck at the time, and it is their opinion, as well as my own, 
that it was an enormous sea-serpent. The American ship 4. B. 
Thompson from Bombay to London, was in company at the time 
— wind light and variable, with clear weather’. — We have not 
space for the Sketch obligngly send with this account”. 
The comparison with a spar, an unwrought spar, or spruce, a 
log of timber, etc., has been made more than once, as the reader 
will remember, and when we compare the figures, drawn by an 
officer of H. M. S. Plumper (fig. 31), and by Major Senror (fig. 
46), we can easily imagine, that in this position the animal must 
have illuded the observers more than once. It is a pity that the 
