Show A serpent of the sea chancellor rand of mcmaster university received by express a box which when opened was found to contain s make some nine feet long iong of slender build and of a dull mud color an accompanying compa nying letter explained the arrival last may while on the way from froin tho the philippine islands tho the theodore H rand a ship named after tho the chancellor was caught in a heavy gale off the african coast everything was battened down and yet after some hours during which the tha seas ran bodily over the ves eel the helmsman felt something like a rope around his bis leg and looking down was horrified to find this snake the ship at the time was more than a hundred miles off the shor ewas closely battened a and had not bee been in port f for some weeks many theories have been raised to account for the reptiles presence some thinking it had been washed aboard luring during the storm others that it had lain dormant since the ship left port and others suggesting that a genuine sea serpent had at last been found the captain forwarded the snake to the chancellor as a curiosity toronto empire |