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a porpoise, a shark, or a herring barrel, when I see them. I am 
Sir, your obedient servant” 
“Glenelg Mame”. “J. Macrar”. 
Miss Kare Macrar’s narrative, written on the spot, runs as 
follows : 
“In the yacht “Leda”, 20th. and 21th. August 1872. — We 
were becalmed in the sound of Sleat about 3 miles from Glenelg, 
the day was intensely hot, the lads were rowing slowly. I was 
facing the stern, when I saw about a half mile behind, a dark 
object suddenly emerge, about the size of a small cask. I exclaim- 
ed, and called the attention of the others to it; immediately a 
second, third, fourth, fifth ,.thing appeared like this”. (Here Miss 
MacraE has drawn six bunches exactly resembling those drawn 
by her father, see fig. 39 p. 323). “We thought at first it was 
the back of a cormorant, but were undeceived by seeing the ani- 
mal swim swiftly just under the surface of the water towards a 
rowing boat of country people which was nearer it than we were, 
the people evidently astonished ceased rowing, and the creature 
disappeared quietly without the least agitation of the water. Our 
boys then resumed their oars, which they had dropped to gaze, 
and next we saw the animal coming swiftly towards us, from the 
direction of the boat; it raised the water before it, and left a wake 
on the calm sea behind it, like what a small steam launch would. 
As our rowers paused again, it turned to the outer side of our 
yacht, and disappeared, but I noticed that something like a rounded 
paddle, the breadth of two hands worked to and fro raising the 
water in a clear dome as it went down; the colour of it a dark 
brown, and shape like this’. (Here Miss Macrar has drawn a thick 
curved line in the form of a horse-shoe, the opening turned down- 
wards). “In a few minutes afterwards, the row of lumps appeared 
again about a mile behind, and this time a triangular fin stuck 
up from about the 4th. lump, and apparently 1Oft. the size of our 
jib, and the animal moved slowly along on the surface’. _ 
“Next evening as we were slipping gently along near the mouth 
of Loch Hourn on the N. side, my nephew called out, that he © 
saw the sea-serpent again. Swimming across from Skye, by the 
_ time I caught sight of it, it was far away, but showed more 
lumps, I counted 12, there were two sloops trying to get up into 
the Loch, and the crews were in their boats towing them, the 
animal looked 4 times as long as one of these vessels, it was swim- 
ming leisurely, and plainly pursued those vessels; then making a 
