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Again, on July 13, a similar serpent was seen about two hun- 
dred yards off, shooting itself along the surface, the head and neck 
being out of the water several feet. This was seen only by the 
captain and one ordinary seaman, whose signatures are affixed.” 
GrorGe Drevar, Master. 
Owen Baker. 
“A few moments after it was seen elevated some sixty feet per- 
pendicularly in the air by the chief officer and the following able 
seamen, whose signatures are also affixed.” 
Horatio 'THompson. 
Winuram Lrwarn. 
Owrn Baker. 
“And we make this solemn declaration conscientiously , believing 
the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act 
made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, 
entitled “An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parlia- 
ment, entitled an Act for the more effectual abolition of oath 
and affirmations, taken and made in various departments of the 
State, and to subtitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the 
more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial oaths and 
affidavits, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unne- 
cessary oaths.” Severally declared and subscribed at Liverpool 
aforesaid the tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred 
and seventy-seven.” 
GrorcE Drevar, Master. 
Wituiam Lewarn, Steward. 
Horatio THomeson, Chief Officer. 
J. H. Lanpetrs, Second Officer. 
Owen Baker. 
“Severally declared and subscribed at Liverpool aforesaid, the 
tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy- 
seven, before T. S. Raffles, J. P. for Liverpool.” 
In Nature of February 10th. 1881, we read that ,,Captain 
Drevar has circulated a printed account of the conflict which he 
witnessed , and of the subsequent appearance of the animal rearing 
its long neck out of the water.” 
Evidently this circular was a letter addressed by Captain Drevar, 
when in Chittagong (Bengal), to the Editor of the Calcutta Eng- 
lishman, in January, 1876. I have had no opportunity to consult 
this paper, but I have found an extract from it in the Graphic of 
January 27, 1877, and a partial translation of it in the /éustrirte 
