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Show I bad beea The Great Sen Serpent. Gnette, April 17. bank of cl tud.-There was a thick aud a the sun rose on the horizon, behind the dark bau-from the sra, ivd and blu wa.t ui.irtcs i.f clor lit up t he wbolc cxpause nd vullow ' 1 was looKiug at aud of sky bl t of rod. ou the itrangi ruddy water" riuht astern when I saw, ap the horizon, but ic the pgftutiy ue;tr It red blot, a dark uiovi'jg shadow th with other did not seam to aiove iihaduws on the sea, and this fixed my attention to it. Soon I saw that it. was steadily approaching the ressel. c'0uld distinguish no form, only a dark shadow, but I made out certain was advancing toward us y that it Fifteen minutes snd at a great rate. when I at last be must have passed anie able t distinguish the form of the advancing object. (I spoke to e the captain afterward as to the the object could have been when I first distinguished it, us from and be told m8 I must have been deceived by the moving lights in it near the horizon; and h guessed, from what I said, that it was then only three or four miles Mistakes of a lfke nature, distant. he said, are commonly made by the inexDerienced.) I cannot accurately describe my feslings on beholding At first I turned that hideous sight. others call to to look ou to out, bring a before irith me; but, cry could pass my lips, a second feeling of selfish pleasure that I alone saw that fearful thing, seiz?d me, aud I turned my eyes agaiu to the sea and kept them rFrom the Bombay . dis-unc- sup-posiu- g there. Within a hundred feet of the stern of our vessel, not now jpproaehiug us, but simply following iteadily in our wake, was this hideous A great mass of what thing. looked like tangled seaweed, on which a futile attempt at combing had been fixed out of the water. made, roso This mm must have been twenty or thirty feet in length and ten feet in width, and as it came on it caused a wide ripple in the water that showed there must ba a still greater part bestow the surface, From the center ef tiis muss, raised just clear above it, and facing the vessel, was a great bluck head. The top was quite flat, in shape not unlike that ct a monstrous toad. A thick fringe of coarse, reddish hair huug over the mouth, Hut the eyes quite concealicg it. were the most awful part of this fear-fu- l thing They were placed far apart, at either extremity of the flat head, distant from least three fret. . I that all the each other at must here state passengers and all the crew, except the captain himself, saw the thing atterward, but that there were scarcely two who could agree as to the color and nature of these eyes. 1 can only, therefore, write as they Ipeared to me. The eyeballs were euurmous; they mu3t have been four or five inches in diameter. They cintiilated ooustantly. Every one kuows the extraordinary appearance of a surface covered ith small alternate squares of bright red and bright blue, tho quiveriog, uncertain, uufixed look such a surface has, the difficulty, the impossibility experienced by the looker on to fix the color of any particular square. The eyeballs of this thing nd such a quivering, uncertain look; bat they were not red, not blue, not jvd and blue; they were of a bright, buriungly bright, copper hue; they pained our eyes and in this we were all agreed as we iooked ut them. In the center of each eyeball, a mere speck, but visible from iis extreme brightness, was a point of light, of 'tote light. It was impossible to leu whether these were or were pohts not material points of the eye or tterely caused by reGection, but they ere clearly defined, and seemed tu 'Cttiaxo lB the same place. The hoever, of the thing was bo bHa ! deduction could fairly i a9 j mo-"O- Qriwn . . f... vai !.-- . l not caangwg .: - "e appearance of this exiraordi-w- j creature was so new to. me, so B"?y outside all my previous that I had no preconceived hich t0 compare the tU i . t raised io m, mind. So the "Pjtjjon it caused was xagua and e, LV cremc-horro- r aad dis- - the pleas olutely. We looked constantly fot the at li king thiog, thai t during the rest of that day, but I had quite forgo fun the other peo. iot the slightest trace did we so absorbed in f -- ing pain of dis-ove- r. die on b'ar'i and was first arouse! I lactam hearing: by Dividsou stej the stern by me, ive one lo k upon below at the water, and then hurried Ib a few minutes ver ly go back passenger was crowding to the stern even the ladies appearing, though h unfinished costume. Exclamation-othe extreaest astonishment brok from all, and then eileuce fell, as tit crowd stared at the hideous creature. The children, at the fiist sight, rau b ick below screaming, and some refuted to come again on deck, though their nurses and ayahs desirous of looking on themselves used all possible means to make them. Some returned, curiosity overcoming fear, but even these looked on in a perpetual tremor of teiror, and hold themselves ready at the first movement of the thing to rush away. I noticed at this time the captain was not present, and turned to an old European sailor by me and asked him to go and tell him. "Captain won't come, no fear of that, sir," replied the man. I asked if he was navigating the ship. "No, ho was not navigating the snip, replied the sailor, "but he would not come lor all that; however, he would go and tell him." But though he went, the captain would not come. We all remained absorbed in the strange sight till the first breakfast bell rang at 8:30, when we had perforce to hurry away and take our chance of bathing at tltat late hour. Up to this time the thing had kept steadily in our wake, its movement continuing absolutely smooth and constant, and the specks of light in the glaring eyes never changing a hair's breadth from their position. At breakfast I sat one re move from the captain. We began, of course, talking of the thing we had seen, but the cap tain, for some reason we could not then understand, seemed to dislike the subject, and soen we abandoned it, falling then into absolute silence, fcr we could talk of nothing else. When we went on deck again we were only a few minutes at breakfast we found the thing still following steadily in our wake. The children had in a great measure got over theii fear, and had made along line by joining hands, and the whole lot of them would now crouch down and then suddenly rise up, open their moutha at the thing and cry out at No notice apparently being it. taken ef this they grew bolder, and at last their cries increased till they shrieked shrilly. Suddenly the hideous creature seemed roused by these crici, it raised its head in the air, uttered a, strange bellow, and came forward at a great pace toward the ship. None of us could at first move from fear; the thing seemed to have grown in size, its eyeballs were more burni&gly bright; the children fell on the deck crying, and some of the women fainted. But wc who remain standing, suffering though we were uuder intense terror, still could not, when we at last were able to move, retreat, or even take our eyes off the thiug It came swiftly up to the ship, always uttering the &atne peculiar cry or bellow. W hen but a few ieet from the stern it suddenly turned and came up close on the port side. Here the side awnings had been put up to keep iff the sun, but t hree of as rushed up to tb.i awning it down that we and quickly the thing. watch For might better myself, I must my (hit white doing this 1 was Mill mattering frotu extreme fear, but my curiosity was no intense and so irresistible,mat I oould only a:. as I did Ni sooner was the thing level with us thau it raised it self with a sudden movement high out of the water, till its head was thirty or forty leet above us. It still uttered the saute pee tliar cry or bei low. Under our intense curiosity we stood out on the bulwarks to follow It opened a great its movements. cried mare loudly than before mouth, aud made three blows at the main 1 be last ot theoo touched it, mast. and caused the ship to sway Twknt-ly- , were nearly cast off so that into the water. Whei we looked astain for the thiag it waa gone. These was- no ripple, no. disturbance of any kind iu the water, to 'show whera. it had heea, It waa gone al- -- f . And now let me state shortly why I, not over facile in writing, or fitted r the sulj.-cby kuowledge, writ his. At tiffin of that same day j -t as we wern rising to return ol leek, the captain rose and asked us Then fo retnaiu for a few minutes. referred to the straugt ne sight we had seen that day. laying stress on the fact, however, that he himself had not seen it, and he weut on: "Now uowe of you can doubt what you saw; hut I advise you not to talk about it. That was the sea serpent you saw. It only leads to making people laugh, and the papers take it up and cut jokes on it, and it U.v AUK NOV lUfiOElViNG OUlt GOODS won't do you auy good, and it But do me any good. would not then remember I did not see it, so and Western Markets, I've nothing to do with this one. And are therefore able to compete in price and quality with any But, if you take my advice, you house in Utah. Our btock consists of won't talk about it. Punch took up one sea serpent, and that captain STAPLE FANCY never got over it never. Remember, though, I didu't see this one." You will see how, Mr. Editor, that if you don't publish this, a most extraordinary fact may be lost to the world. This account. I may state, Queens-warehas been read over by some of the passengers, and their disagreement from what I have written is only what would necessarily, under the circumstances mentioned, be expect FIRST CLASS ASSORTMENT OF cd. To show that 1 have no fear of A CL0TU1XG ! GEATS' ridicule, I give my name, Sum i H I II t i.- eh-rt- ly Direct from Eastern DRY GOODS and AND GROCERIES, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Glassware, Paints, Oils, Putty, Glass, Tinware, Hardware, Plows etc., etc. JUST AlrtlrLI V'JiP, Matthew Strong. 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