A SEA SERPENT IN CONFLICT WITH A WHALE.
The Zanzibar correspondent of the Western Morning News, writing under date October 20, says :—": — " The barque Pauline has arrived at Zanzibar, with coals tor Her Majesty's shi]). When off Cape St. Rogue, South.. America, a sight was presented that made the crew aghast — nothing less than the great sea serpent engaged in a conflict with a whale. It had wound itself twice round the whale, and was twirling it with tremendous velocity, lashing, the water into foam. The noise could be distinctly heard on board, and after battling for some time both disappeared. The serpent's length can be imagined. It had two coils around, a full-sized sperm whale,with thirty feet clear at each end. ' Its diameter " was from three to four feet. They saw it twice afterwards. Once it came very close to the vessel, and raised itself about sixty feet out of the water, as if about to attack them. I have questioned men and officers trying to find out any discrepancy between their statements, but am a convert to the belief that it was seen." Another naval officer writes to the Western Morning News to precisely the same effect; and the officers of Her Majesty's ships on the station are said to be convinced of tho truth of the j story. — Liverpool Courier,
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Wanganui Herald, Volume x, Issue 2698, 5 February 1876, Page 2
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223A SEA SERPENT IN CONFLICT WITH A WHALE. Wanganui Herald, Volume x, Issue 2698, 5 February 1876, Page 2
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