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Mr. Vernon Harcourt told me that he was in a small yacht off Glenelg 
on the evening of the day mentioned in your report, and about 
six miles from the locality and that he and his crew saw what 
seemed a great moving mass, which, but for some engagement or 
the lateness of the hour, they would have examined.” 
It is evident that the greater.part of the account of the Zimes 
is not reprinted in the Zoologist. 
The above given descriptions are poor, giving no approximative 
measurements of the diameter of the neck, &c. 
This is the only appearance of the animal on the eastern coasts 
of Great Britain! 
Again I am obliged to express my astonishment that Mr. Nrw- 
MAN does not mention any date, neither of the appearances, nor 
of Mr. Joass’ letter. 
144. — 1875, July 8. — In the LMustrated London News of 
November 20th., 1875, appeared the following engraving and 
account: . 
“Our Engraving is an exact representation of a sketch we have 
received, with the following letter from the Rev. E. L. Penny, 
M. A., Chaplain to H. M. 8S. London, at Zanzibar, Oct. 21: — 
“T send you herewith a sketch of the great sea-serpent attacking 
a spermwhale, which I have made from the descriptions of the 
captain and crew of the barque Pauline, and they have, alter 
careful examination, pronounced it to be correct. The whale should 
have been placed deeper in the water, but JI should then have 
been unable to depict so clearly the manner in which the animal 
was attacked.” 
“Captain Drevar, of the barque Pauline, bound with coals for 
her Majesty’s naval stores at Zanzibar, when in lat. 5 deg. 13 min. 
S., long. 35 deg. W., on July 8 last, observed three very large 
sperm whales, and one of them was gripped round the body, 
with two turns, by what appeared to be a huge serpent. Its back 
was of a darkish brown and its belly white, with an immense head 
and mouth, the latter always open; the head and tail had a length 
beyond the coils about 30 ft.; its girth was about 8 ft. or 9 ft. 
Using its extremities as levers, the serpent whirled its victim round 
and round for about fifteen minutes, and then suddenly dragged 
the whale down to the bottom, head first. The other two whales, 
