Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . ages thither, there occurs this passage: On the 6th of July (1734) there appeared avery large and frightful sea-monster, which raiseditself so high out of the water that it« head reach-ed above our main-top. It had a long sharp snout, and spouted water like a whale; and verybroad flappers. The body seemed to be coveredwith scales, and the skin was uneven and wiink-led, and the lower part was formed like a some time the creature plunged backwardinto the water, and then turned its tail up abovethe surface, a whole ship-l
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . ages thither, there occurs this passage: On the 6th of July (1734) there appeared avery large and frightful sea-monster, which raiseditself so high out of the water that it« head reach-ed above our main-top. It had a long sharp snout, and spouted water like a whale; and verybroad flappers. The body seemed to be coveredwith scales, and the skin was uneven and wiink-led, and the lower part was formed like a some time the creature plunged backwardinto the water, and then turned its tail up abovethe surface, a whole ship-length from the following evening we had veiy bad then follows the sketch, of which a fac-simile is given above. It may add to the read-ers satisfaction to know that Mr. Egede wasnot only as familiar as any old whaleman v^dththe appearance of whales, porpoises, and sealsin the water, but that he was also a remarkablyclose and accurate observer, as appears from oth-er engravings and descriptions in his book, where A PLEA FOR A MONSTER. 181. HEAD OF CAPTAIN MQUHAES SEA-8EKPENT. he is so minutely correct in certain apparentlytrivial but really important details of such little-known fish as the long-mysterious narwhal, orsea-unicorn, that his descriptions have not beenfound faulty by the closest later observers. Next comes Captain Lawrence de Ferry, Com-mander of Bergen, in Norway, who, to satisfyBishop Pontoppidan, to whom he gave the fol-lowing account, went, with two of his seamen—additional witnesses — before a magistrate andmade oath to its truth. He says : Tlie latter end of August, in the year 174G,as I was on a voyage, in my return from Trund-theim, in a very calm and hot day, having amind to put in at Molde, it happened, that whenwe were arrived with my vessel within six En-glish miles of the aforesaid Molde, being at aplace called Jule-N£ess, as I was reading in abook, I heard a kind of murmuring voice fromamong the men at the oars, who were eigh
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