356 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS , [ 1879. | 
kinds of oceanic monsters probably exist, of which no single 
specimen has yet been obtained. Recollecting, however, the number 
of clever hoaxes to which this subject has given rise we think 
that the newspaper account at p. 104, of the declaration before a 
Liverpool J. P., made by the master and crew of a merchant-ship, 
to the effect that they had seen a huge serpent twice coiled round 
a sperm-whale, and a similar serpent with its head raised “sixty 
feet perpendicularly in the air,” should not have been inserted as 
evidence without first ascertaining that such a declaration was act- 
ually made before the magistrate named. The troubling of writing 
a single letter would probably have been sufficient, and would 
have settled the preliminary question of whether, from beginning 
to end, it was not a newspaper canard.” 
I am convinced that, after having attentively read what they 
find in this book about the appearance of the sea-serpent as seen 
by the crew of the Pauline (n°. 144, 145) my readers will be 
convinced that the report of Captain Drevar was not a canard. 
We read moreover in Mature of Febr. 10, 1881, 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. Mr. Woop, the writer of the ar- 
ticle m which this is communicated, adds: “‘I'his is satisfactory as 
showing that the declaration was no hoax’. I quite agree with him. 
149 — 1879, January 28. — The Graphic of April, 19, 
1879, says: 
“The following is an extract from the account given by our 
correspondent, Major H. W. J. Senior, of the Bengal Staff Corps, 
to whom we are indebted for the sketch from which our engray- 
ing is taken: — “On the 28th. of January, 1879, at about 10 
a. m., J was on the poop deck of the steamship City of Baltimore 
in lat. 12° 28' N., long 43° 52' HE. I observed a long black object 
abeam of the ship’s stern on the starboard side, at a distance of 
about three-quarters of a mile, darting rapidly out of the water, 
and splashing in again with a sound distinctly audible, and ad- 
vancing nearer and nearer at a rapid pace. In a minute it had 
advanced to within half a mile, and was distinctly recognizable as 
the veritable “sea-serpent”. I shouted out “Sea-serpent! sea-serpent ! 
call the captam!” Dr. C. Hall, the ship’s surgeon, who was read- 
