Show south african tells tella of odd sea monster one morning I 1 saw what I 1 took to be two whales fighting with homesell som esell sen monster about 1300 yards from the shore I 1 got my glasses and was surprised to see an which desm res eca blell a polar bear but in size was equal to an all elephant this object I 1 observed to back out of the water fully 20 feet and strike repeatedly at the two whales but with seemingly no effect so arl writes tes 11 0 ballance Kal lance of natal africa in a natal newspaper continuing tip lip says saya after an hour the afie whales made off and the incoming title tide brought the monster within sight night 11 and nd I 1 saw that the body ana covered witt with hair eight inches long exactly like a polar bears and snow white next morning mr ballance found the carcass lying high on the beach ile he measured it and found it was 47 feet from tip to tall the tall was ten feet long and two feet wide and where the he head bond should have been the arenture cren ture had a sort of trunk 14 inches in diameter and about five feet long the end being like tile the snout of a pig the bacIc backbone brine was very prominent and the whole body covered with snowwhite hair for ten days said mr air Ral ballance lance tills this mass lay inert on the eleventh lay day there was not a n sign of the arenture cren ture I 1 met some rome nit natives tives who told me that while fishing they had find seen the lie monster out nt at son going up the coast and that Is the last we have seen of it |