334. THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS , [N°. 144. | 
Zeitung of Febr. 3, 1877. What I have found in the Graphic 
runs as follows: 
“Captain GEORGE Drevar, master of the barque Pauline, has 
furnished us a sketch of the Sea-Serpent (from which the annexed 
engraving is taken), which he encountered off the coast of South 
America. The occurrence took place on the 8th. July, 1875, at 
eleven A. M., the Pauline being at that time off Cape San Roque, 
lat. 5° 13’ N., long 35° W., the north-east coast of Brazil being 
twenty miles distant. 
Captain Drevar says: 
— The weather fine 
and clear, wind and 
sea-moderate. Observed 
some black spots on the 
water, and a whitish 
pillar, about thirty feet 
high above them. At 
Fig. 42. — Another representation of the so-called “Fight the first glance I took 
between a sea-serpent and a sperm-whale”’. all to be breakers as 
the sea was splashing 
up fountain-like about them, and the pillar a pinnacle rock, 
bleached with the sun; but the pillar fell with a splash, and a 
similar one rose. They rose and fell alternately in quick succession, 
and good glasses showed me it was a monstrous sea-serpent coiled 
twice round a large sperm-whale. The head and tail parts, each 
about thirty feet long were acting as levers, twisting itself and 
victim round with great velocity. They sank out of sight about 
every two minutes, coming to the surface still revolving; and the 
struggles of the whale and two other whales, that were near, 
frantic with excitement, made the sea in their vicinity like a 
boiling cauldron; and a loud and confused noise was distinctly 
heard. This strange occurrence last some fifteen minutes, and 
finished with the tail portion of the whale being elevated straight 
in the air, then waving backwards and forwards, and lashing the 
water furiously in the last death struggle, when the body disap- 
peared from our view, going down head foremost to the bottom, 
where no doubt it was gorged at the serpent’s leisure; and that 
monster of monsters may have been many months in a state of 
coma, digesting the huge mouthful. Then two of the largest sperm- 
whales that I have ever seen moved slowly thence towards the — 
vessel, their bodies more than usually elevated out of water, and 
