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Skip pers who have beheld the monster have made no entry of the fact in their log book lest they be derided when their vessels are snug in port. Naturalists have hemmed and hawed in their writings regarding it. Poets have been reticent upon the theme— all except John Milton, whose remarks upon Leviathan in "Paradiso Lost” have been construed by a modern au thority to mean Sea Serpent pure and simple. For a century the scientific world has looked at sea serpents askance. And yet there Is one professional field in life whose members have sup plied more data concerning sea ser pents and given more profuse informa tion in regard to them than all the skippers and travelers who have ever circled the globe. From the earliest times it has remained for the ministry to supply us with our greatest number of “facts” regarding the marine de scendant of Adam’s happiness. Dea cons, priests and bishops have seen sea serpents galore, and there are on file the names of at least a dozen cler ical men who are involved in the coils of sea serpent stories, from Olaus Magnus, the archbishop of Upsala, down to Rev. P. W. Demboldt, arch deacon of Molde; Rev. William Jenks, Rev. Alden Bradford, Rev. Mr. Cum mings of Sullivan, and Rev. Alexan der Maclean, all good names and hon est, some of them from puritanical New England. The bishop of Pontopiddan, another worthy divine, believed implicitly in sea serpents, and even altered the de scriptions and drawings of other men to gratify his own enthusiasm in re gard to them. The bishop of Ponto pidden, who lived in the middle of the eighteenth centuhy, advanced the the ory that the mermaids of mediaeval lore were nothing more nor less than sea cows that browse upon salt water greens with their front flippers and open their mouths sideways. But in regard to sea serpents the bishop was not so skeptical. He described them on hearsay as numerous, lengthy and terrible, often 100 feet in length, pos sibly 600, with eyes as large as pew ter plates, lilac or blue in color, and sometimes fiery red with anger. The good divine even made a jour ney down the Scandinavian coast to investigate a tale that a tablecloth had been made by a fisherman’s fam ily from the skin of a sea serpent which the reptile had sloughed ofT In the pleasant waters of the harbor of j Kobberyeug. The bishop was honest ; enough to state that he had been ! gulled in this respect, but did not alter his opinion regarding sea serpents in general. The illustration in bis book showing a sea serpent reared on his tail, squirting profuse gallons of wa ter out of his snout, was drawn and exaggerted by the bishop of Pontopid dan from the sketch made by Bing, who had forever immortalized a sea serpent beheld by Hans Egede. It is notable that Hans Egede Was himself ! an evangelist, whose work as a mis sionary was taking him to the wilds of Greenland when the sea serpent ap peared before him. Olaus Magnus, tne arcnmsnop or up sala, writes at length of a sea serpent, ascribing to it a length of 200 feet and a girth of 20, and stating the beliefs of the sailors of his time regarding it —how it was fond of calves and sheep and swine, and used to snap the sea men from the decks of their own ves sels. Rev. Mr. Cummings of Sullivan de scribes a whopping sea serpent that he saw not far from Long Island in July of 1808. Thirty-seven years later another divine, Rev. P. W. Dem boldt, made the startling statement that not only had he seen the sea ser pent in the water near his home on the Norwegian coast, but that he had shot at it with a musket and evidently wounded it quite badly, from the ruc tion that took place in the water after ward. Rev. Alexander Maclean, who flour ished at about the same time as Rev. Mr. Cummings, observed off the island of Coll what he first called, in his clerical manner, an “object." It ap peared like a small rock, he said, but after looking at it for some time he saw it elevated above the surface of the sea and move in his direction with a measured and dignified motion. In intense alarm the minister steered for shore with the sea serpent apparent ly pursuing him. It drew so near that ■fcc tuosnosuRus Resembled the Sea serpent More Than any OT her V£RTET>KATt C> *«t*km* mmwo. kistowy ru»cu* he could see its shining eye, but on finding the water shallow it apparent ly became discouraged and moved off to sea again, where later, according to the minister's story, it was reported as having frightened nearly to death the crews of half a dozen fishing ves sels. These accounts of the findings of reverend gentlemen were gathered to gether by Anthony Oudemans. who published a voluminous book on sea serpents. This book contains all re ported appearances. Dr. Oudemans, from whose volume part of this material has been gather ed, not only goes into all the '‘veraci ous" reports of the sea serpent’s ap pearance, but into all the hoaxes that have been played in regard to it He has even described a hoax that was perpetrated against the sea serpent by a learned writer who desired to show that the reptile was non-existent, and in connection with this piece of false work the present writer un earthed a fraud that has lain dormant tor 50 years. Nearly 100 years ago a certain Sam uel L. Mitchell wrote a paper designed to throw discredit on the sea serpent stories that were current at that date. The paper appeared in the American Journal of Arts and Sciences for 1829. Almost a century later Dr. Oudemans rakes up Mr. Michell’s article and says that Mr. Mitchell lied, quoting that gentleman’s entire paper to prove it. But this quotation was responsible for the discovery of even another fraud than-the one laid at the door of Mr. Mitchell. For in 1862 there ap peared in Leisure Hour an article en titled “Sea Serpent Stories,” by John Hollingshead. who, after praising Mr. Mitchell for the "first honest ex posure” of the sea serpent, and quot ing him for a paragraph, proceeds to steal his article verbatim and use it as his own, which was ascertained by the present wrrlter when comparing the quotation of Mitchell’s article witfc the article by Mr. Hollingshead. One of the most famous pro-sea ser pent hoaxes, according to Dr. Oude macs, is a fraud that was achieved by the correspondent of a French news paper, who gives a thrilling account of a sea serpent beheld by C. Renard and seven others from the deck of the Royal Mail steamship Don, on the eve ning of the 10th of August. 1881. M. Renard and the others were sit ting on deck, so it is alleged, enjoying a perfect evening and the gleam of a moonlit sea, when a horrible and nauseating monster came to the sur face at no great distance from the ship, while at the same time an over powering stench attacked the nostrils of the travelers. The monster, runs the report, meas ured from 40 to 60 meters, in so far as the numerous coils made measure ment possible. From the dorsal ridge to the middle of the belly the body ap peared to be covered by ranges of scales, and the general roughness of the surface and the moss-grown skin appeared to indicate a great and as sured age. The head was pointed, with teeth “sharp and enormous,” and from the throat, “attached to a kind of cushion,” there projected a hard tongue, "pointed, provided with suck ers and glittering like steel.” This horrible brute stayed on the surface of the water in full view for at least ten minutes, when it sank again beneath the surface of the water The alleged beholders of the terrible sight gave solemn testimony of their experience to the editor by letter, in which it was stated with most remarkable assur ance that all these facts were truths of refined and intrinsic purity. A sketch accompanied the letter and Is printed here. But after all the cavil and false hood pro and con regarding enormous serpents of the ocean, a residue ol truth remains in some of the tales ol the sea serpent’s appearance that cause the present day scientists tc shrug their shoulders. Some of the reports of the monster are not easily explained away, and in the early part of the nineteenth century so many reputable witnesses are said to have beheld it that even the? conservative Encyclopedia Britannica admits that some strange sea monster must have existed and put in his appearance at that time. So many times did the sea serpent show itself off the New Eng land coast that it gained for itself the name of the "American sea serpent,” and so many sturdy old Puritans tes tified to its general shape, size and appearance that a pretty good idea has been gained of the kind of animal that showed itself. According to most descriptions, the sea serpent was about 60 feet long, dark in color, but lighter below, in the manner of an eel, with a fiat head and a neck about l£ inches in diameter. An English naval officer. Captain McQuhal, of H. M. S. Daedalus, in serted in his official report to Admiral Sir W. H. Gage in 1S45 the statement that he had seen an animal of this description rapidly approaching his ship in 24 degrees 44 minutes south latitude by 9 degrees 22 minutes east longiture. He described it as an "enormous serpent,” with its head raised about four feet above the water, swimming along at an even and speedy rate and at least 60 feet in length. Captain McQuhal’s account encour aged other officers to tell of similar experiences, where previously they had not dared for fear of ridicule. The sea serpent has appeared too often to mention in detail, but in 1906 It wae reported by Messrs. Meade-Waldo and Nlcall, two members of the Royal Zo ological society, who insist that they saw the sea serpent 100 yards away while cruising in the earl of Craw ford's yacht, the Valhalla, off the coasl of Brazil, on December 7, 1905. While standing together on deck the two zoologists declare that suddenly they saw a great fin come out of the water 100 yards from the ship. Field glasses were brought to bear, and Mr. Meade-Waldo beheld an enormous head rise slowly, followed by a neck that was about the thickness of a man's body. The head, the zoologists say, was distinctly turtle-esque in its appearance, but, as the animal came no nearer and shortly disappeared, its exact size could net be ascertained A long flock of birds skimming the waves once gave the effect of a mightly serpent swimming at consid erable speed, and trailing seaweed has been approached and even har pooned in the belief that it was a ser pent. Giant squid, which are as fear ful and wonderful as the serpent It self, have been mistaken for the latter, and it is probable that the serpent al leged to have been seen by Claus Egede was of this variety. In fact, in spite of all the ridicule and all the hoaxes that have been given forth in the name of this strange animal, there is no reason after all tc deny that it may be living. Holder has commented on the fact that the bi valves of the Mesozoic age have been preserved to the present time. Why then is it not possible for Mother Earth to have stored in her sea cav erns some uncouth, cretaceous mon ster that occasionally shows itself, and each time elicits the well-known and highly rediculous cry: "The sea serpent?” An even more marvelous tree than the date palm is the Carnahuba palm, which grows in Brazil. Its roots pro duce the same medicinal effect as sar rw»wrt.°ttm wine and vinegar are made. Its fruit used for feeding cattle. Of the straw, hats, baskets brooms ard mats are made. It is also used for thatching houses pub“c an agreeable taste and the nut is sometimes used as a substitute for coffee. Its stems affords strong, light fibers, and serve also for joists, raft ers, and other building materials. It yields a saccharine substance, as well as a starch resembling sago. Of the wood of the stem, musical in struments, water tubas, and pumps are made. 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