336 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, | N°. 144. ] 
the weather fine and clear’....... etc., word for word as in the 
Graphic up to the passage....... “head foremost to the bottom , 
where no doubt it was gorged at the serpent’s leisure’. 
“As the serpent was twice wound round the body of the whale, 
Captain Drevar estimated its length to be 160 or 170 feet; it 
was about seven or eight in girth. The mouth was always open; 
the head was very large.” 
“On the 13th. of July at 7 o’clock a. m. the barque was still 
in the same latitude, but about eighty miles from San Roque; 
then the same or a similar monster raised out of the water. Its 
head and about forty feet of its body were thrown horizontally out 
of the water and passed our stern.”’ 
“As I was still reflecting on the cause, why this strange guest 
so often paid us a visit, and concluded that it was the white 
stripe of two feet breadth, which went round our ship above the 
copper work and which the serpent probably thought to be one 
of its colleagues, the cry of “There he is again” roused me. At a 
short distance from the ship I really saw the Leviathan, balancing 
about sixty feet high in the air, looking angrily at our vessel. As 
I was not sure, whether it was only looking at the white stripe 
on the ship’s hull, probably thinking to see one of its colleagues, 
or whether it was preparing to attack the vessel, we kept ready 
all our axes, to give it a warm reception. But the animal dived 
and disappeared.” 
The German translater is convinced that the story contains 
truth, but he suggests that the whale was playmg with a large 
tree or with a broken mast, “for it is known that whales like to 
gambol with violent motions’. The author further presents to his 
readers a reduced copy of the sketch of the Rev. Penny, (our fig. 
Agee 
Mr. Ler, who usaully explains every sea-serpent after each 
report quoted by him, says, in his Sea Monsters Unmasked, p. 
90, the following about these reports. 
“It is impossible to doubt for a moment the genuineness of the 
statement made by Captain Drevar and his crew, or their honest 
desire to describe faithfully that which they believed they had seen; 
but the height to which the snake is said to have upreared itself 
is evidently greatly exaggerated; for it is impossible that any ser- 
pent could “elevate its body some sixty feet perpendicularly in the 
air’ — nearly one third of the height of the Monument of the 
Great Fire of London. I have no desire to force this narrative of 
