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1 TH2 OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, -FOItTLAfaX - f UT.T AY V.CZTZZIC, AtJ3T 24,- ..: THAT ARE NOT SUMMER . RESORT DELUSIONS MS 1 V W 'fid 4ont.e Te7orJTlhrUfr:$t crcaturtbiilwter-dxwMrThaUQns. V (il . suppbrtiHphtmcDme two. mem&ax?;pKi4M ' - ; Fol&yarj o of thes>ant ocean J25il??l!?SSi dtsporting ofzife Asiatic coasrttfCcnuin ; TSkx- nmtlar iff abearance tlasea about ainitLon tne. Two Frfnch navjl officers' also add hheircon , Let the. suffer, who scouts the. existence ttt this elustbe retttle. or fish, whitmvtrjt itty be, gonder upon the evidence off ere itions oJrroof. ditiot . . - I TV.' -c. r- .1 I . t...t. .?rrwi,'i that th f French fihvrnmetit send an exte- ,w ' ' - - ' ' week ffo two sentlemen. iCr'; who tfo cruise in Southern wTtJ2S last winraiupon the Earl of Craw- , -.ford's -yacht jWhalla - related Tin in- . ( ? r mur 3rd at nat loth are experience to hefffeUow-inembera of , ologiOAl docihk .' -, ' ' . Mea3iSSftM9. and Mr. who had ad&ManiedTtfftxaw- hsts upon bis us USA winter are iraai: ia a mem While the VoJM thi mf natural ist known in scientieircles, anckyr , r ' of the councUoJgDTerning ihw off f: ber ZoologigVl Society. alia, was cruising on ira, rnintr of December7 latVthe with a nnmhor nttfrrw. were deck. Their attention was canglrt iouL object waving from side to side in tm -W' ' ' A . - " ' - - '- fsteri eking up their marine elasses, they ex- object and were surprised to find jTesembled the sea 8erpenti,that lad been other Teasels of recent years. . from the water was a huge, eel ig as a man's thigh. ' About six nerk as risible. Surmounting it was teoj Sd resembling that of a turtle, tftreft-tnriaxAtchers looked.'nthe rreav oeaa uawcKxrs. riTfWfcfcaonsiaraDie distance out of ttoyartifiWMgh w& cum. t ine creature wiifcis color's Its upper side tand sUvt TiUff Nierncflth. I After a few nioments 'Nthe Tltad ras slowly lowered and theotlgwlMilipiiW lack into the sea. For a little while tkb wstir as violently . lashed : and hen the creature Some distance lack of the heacvHiWuhe aprpeni appearea aDove tne water, ttv iiWTe: taw wnat aeemed to be a large fin, or ' eaweed brown inroolnr ttnA inniMtiii It the edge. , "i: ' I So impressed I were 'Messrs. Nieoli Waldo that they immediately made a sketch e serpent. Kr' Because of light, adverse winds the . Val 1 1 . oecBus vi iigui, aaverie winas toe . Val- -w. ' il, , . , , Ualla did not make much prowess durimr the ' enornVV. PP'oeIfe3hInp so closely mnanr.oT ma nir. unit at mMn a . iuc V:- .S : ' w "-4 r wm tScthe -late Professor i Sir Richard ; Owen, lco2fedat'the story '" ' V rief, Captain ' JIcQuhae sUted . that k ?2tt3(A2t f We lek ing 4jnrttja;t of West Africa, an anV.fralftscs could about twenty miles from the spot where the " hve "een sily rcc ! mnnitr hit A twn nmnntMii As the aernent iwuii: TU-During-tbe -night tbattention-of-one-rf 'd&vUfoJftttt"' he officers was sttrscted by a strange commo- T"'" "i17 Iecs 118 TAf, ion in the water.,.. He thought at first that. tho ehnf . f "m on the surface, w. pssel waa near, a submerired rock, but nn wrojuiuig rwemwing aea o refill mmirKtlnn n,ni . V.t V- - HOtlCea tenant LagresUle and Lieutenant X'Eost, of the Trench-' navy, t : . . ,,!. i . Lieutenant ' Lagresille was - in commend of the warship Avalanche' during a cruise off the Tonquin coast in 1904. Lieutenant L'Eost was in another ship, some time later, some hundreds serpent' in the 2ering Sea. It was,he stated, of enormous length, red in color, and with a bead like thai of the sea lion. , i J , ; , - . - ' Those who refuse to believe the existence of the sea serpent as anything except the fig- . ment 6f the imagination point to the ribbon- of miles from that spot. but in , the ' same fish as supporting the charge of mistaken iden waters. . ' - 11 ' tity. And yet the ribbonfish bar been known to Both described the creature they. had seen -"grow to a size that made it-a respectable sort , body mewMrraenibmijOEft baking a careful axamination found that tho jject was, apparenUyr a living creature travel ig faster than the yacht, then makinr b tvrcn ight and nine knots an bourv This nsrrative of Messrs. Waldo and Nlcoll 'as received with great interest by the ZooWi- al Society, because of, the resemblance of the escription ox this sea Lerpent to the onu ob- in clusters upon its back. Partial corroboration of . the tale told by Coptain McQuhae came forty-three years later. . In 1891 Peter Nelson, quartermaster on the ahip Botomahana saw a remarkable creature raise part of its body nearly thirty feet out of ' the water within a short distsnce of the- ship, ' JSelson described It as having the head of "mis- Ion or tail and a loin - i-jirtirmii oea aerpeni annaia comma even more cor roborative evidence . collected in the past : On Sunday, March 30, 1856, the officers of the ship Imogend, on . its way : to Soudan from . Algoa Bay, saw' one. of these huge water. snakes. It showed an apparent length of about forty feet above the surface of the sea. - .What is known in. msri time circles as-the 1 J .1... J . . 1 . 1 j i moia . 1 m ., . u m uu uui uiat ipiwireu to wren leetiiOM rvea in jtvo oy wie omcers oi ine JJntidli v j.-i. .u. -- . . . . . : - 0 ... . mkin T)i1abi. ' . : ' . vu LUO ' uiijrr biuo oi ma .uouy unu : ajth; American oe . Dc:peui jui uwa wua At that time Captain McQuhae., of the v t;na-,,;.t. .11 k ,t.. v- . i. ... 7 : .u- i aedalu. and hie officers rested quite a aensa- been 'obaerved. , ; . ; - tween Cane find and Pnobot B.t." - v. 'ion in England with their statmmt a k tTeiTuit 1 Itinf UtlUfalislav- however, among unmense- snakes have been furnished, by Lieu- jc an. extremely long and narrow denizen 5Xitfc3loring and general appear- ' ance of whlrh' 71 Tthrough the wa- . mala i MumliU a 'V, il . avklt. Of ailvfH ribbon slashed with black. r v. A few years aifo an immenaipecimin of ' the ribbonfish, thirty feet long, waJa4t-by .' , seine nauiers on ine coaai oi-ocoutura A Iftng white fin extended its entire and over the head were : a r umber of plum or nomnons. of red that might easily have bS taken for a mane had, the creature been seen swimming along the surface. If this ribboi-fish grew to a length of thirty feet there seems to be no. reason to deny the , -7 traveler, Krinkoff, 'asserted that he saw a great . i .i . i v. r j in the depths. - --- --- - Z. i. : 1 v - L-'.vv....- . . .: .'
