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Fig. 48 and 49.— Two positions of the sea-serpent as seen by Captain Davison of the Kiushiw Maru. 
the water, the upper end going first. With my glasses I ’made out 
the colour of the beast to resemble that of a pilot fish.” 
It is clear that the Editor of the Grapfic is an unbeliever, else 
he would not have called these figures “specimens of the curious 
drawings which are frequently forwarded to us for insertion in the 
pages of this journal’. I think that there is nothing curious in 
these figures, which are as correct as possible. 
Cape Satano is the most southern point of Japan, or better, of 
the Isle of Kiu Siu. It is also called Satano Misaki, of which 
“Saki” or “Misaki” signifies “cape”. The Russian call it Cape 
Chichakoff. This is the third time that we read of the sea-serpent 
being seen in the Pacific Ocean (see n°. 36 and 119). 
The most remarkable fact mentioned in this report is the grip- 
ping the whale. The reader will remember the report of a sea- 
serpent engaged with a whale, of course one of the smaller kind 
(n°. 54). In 1833 some British officers saw a shoal of grampuses 
near Halifax, Nova Scotia, which appeared in an unusual state of 
excitement’ and a little while afterwards the sea-serpent appeared, 
evidently hunting after the grampuses (n°. 97). Again in 1850 (?) 
Captain Curistmas saw “an immense shoal of porpoises rushing 
by the ship, as if pursued” and soon afterwards a sea-serpent made 
its appearance, curving its neck swan-like, evidently keeping a look- 
out and disappearing “head foremost like a duck diving” (n°. 124). 
Also Captain Brown saw it “surrounded by porpoises” (n°. 56). 
And now we have for the fifth time the sea-serpent pursuing 
whales, and a second time that it is engaged with one which it 
had evidently gripped in its pectoral fin. I am convinced that the 
