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ing on deck, jump- = on ae 
ed up in time to /// YY) ) ) WN} 
see fhe monster, ess 
as did also Miss, {=== 
Greenfield, one of [7 *S 
the passengers on 
board. By this time 
it was only about 
500 yards off, and 
a little in the rear, 
owing to the vessel 
then steaming at 
the rate of about 
ten knots an hour 
in a westerly di- 
rection. On ap- 
proaching thewake 
of the ship the 
serpent turned its 
course a littleaway, 
and was soon lost 
to view 1n the blaze 
/) H /, 
H 
ee 
of sunlight retlect- Fig. 46. — The sea-serpent as seen by Major Srntor of the 
ed on the waves City of Baltimore. 
of the sea. So rapid 
were its movements that when it approached the ship’s wake, I 
seized a telescope, but could not catch a view as it darted rapidly 
out of the field of the glass before I could see it. I was thus 
prevented from ascertaining whether it had scaies or not but the 
best view of the monster obtainable when it was about three 
cables’ length, that is about 500 yards’ distant, seemed to show 
that it was without scales. I cannot, however, speak with certainty. 
The head and neck, about two feet in diameter, rose out of the 
water to a height of about twenty or thirty feet, and the monster 
opened its jaws wide as it rose, and closed them again as it 
lowered its head and darted forward for a dive, reappearing almost 
immediately some hundred yards ahead. The body was not visible 
at all, and must have been some depth under water, as the 
disturbance on the surface was too slight to attract notice, although 
occasionally a splash was seen at some distance behind the head. 
The shape of the head was not unlike pictures of the dragon I 
