[ N°. 144. ] REPORTS AND PAPERS. 335 
not spouting or mak- 
ing the least noise, 
but seeming quite par- 
alized with fear; in- 
deed, a cold shiver 
went through my own 
frame on beholding the 
last agonizing struggle 
of the poor whale that Fig. 43, — The sperm-whale going down head foremost 
had seemed as helpless aa 
in the coils of the vici- 
ous monster as a small bird in the talons of a hawk. Allowing 
for two coils round the whale, I think the serpent was about 160 
or 170 feet long, and 7 or 8 feet in girth. It was in colour much 
like a conger-eel; and the head, from the mouth being always 
open, appeared the largest part of its body. I wrote thusfar, little 
thinking I would ever see the serpent again, but at seven A. M., 
July 13, in the same latitude, and some eighty miles east of San 
Roque I was astonished to see the same or a similar monster. It 
was throwing its head and about 40 feet of its body in a hori- 
zontal position out of water as it passed onwards by the stern of 
our vessel.” 
“This narrative is extracted from a letter addressed from Chit- 
tagong to the editor of the Calcutta Huglishman in January 1876. 
It seems that Captain Drevar’s friends advised him to say nothing 
about this strange spectacle. “My. relatives wrote saying that they 
would have seen a hundred sea-serpents and never reported it, 
and a lady also wrote that she pitied any one that was related 
to any one who had seen the sea-serpent.” On the 10th. of this 
month Captain Drevar and four of the crew attended before Mr. 
Raffles, the magistrate at Liverpool, and made a solemn declara- 
tion in support of the foregoing narrative.” 
The two figures, 42 and 43, are facsimiles of those accompany- 
ing the account in the Graphic. 
I will try to translate again into English, what the Jdustrirte 
Zeitung has published about this curious case, taken for granted 
that the German translation was correct, and laying all responsibil- 
ity on the German writer. 
“he Barque Pauwlhne was on July 8th , 1875, about twenty 
miles distant from the north-eastern coast of Brazil, in lat. 5° 13’ 
S., long. 35° W., near Cape San Roque. At 11 o’clock a. m. 
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