348 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [N°. 148. ] 
The same Journal of the 30th. of June publishes the following 
account and sketch by Lieutenant Haynus: 
“We are indebted to Lieut. W. P. Haynes, of H. M.S. Osborne, 
for the sketch of the sea-monster seen by the officers and crew of 
that vessel off the north coast of Sicily on the 2nd. inst. In a 
letter accompanying the sketch, he says: — “My attention was 
first called by seeing a long row of fins appearing above the surface 
of the water at a distance of about 200 yards and “away on our 
beam”. They were of irregular heights, and extending about 30 
or 40 feet in line (the former number is the length I gave, the 
latter the other officers), m a few seconds they disappeared, giving 
place to the foremost part of the monster. By this time it had 
passed astern, swimming in an opposite direction to that we were 
steering, and as we were passing through the water at 10'/, knots, 
I could only get a view of it, “and on’, which I have shown in 
the sketch. The head was bullet-shaped, and quite six feet thick, 
the neck narrow and its head was occasionally thrown back out 
Fig. 44.— The ridge of fins mentioned in the report of the Osborne. 
