Show SAW SEA SERPENT captain ot of vessel arriving at georgia port T tills Ws a remarkable story r A monstrous sea serpent vicious and awful looking was the sight that brought fright to the crew of the schooner samuel B hubbard only a few days ago davs the atlanta constitution ution this vessel of which capt mehaffey Is master has just arrived in port from new now york her corn mandor who la Is well known to all of tho the north atlantic ports vouches tor for the authenticity of the story and the facts are corroborated orro borated by his first mate mr air coverdale capt mehaffey baya says it was on the instant tn in north latitude 34 degrees 41 minutes and west longitude 76 degrees 10 minutes the ship was lying becalmed about 12 noon when the chief mate called my attention to something yom rom ething in the water just abeam a quarter of a mile off A long slim object moving from side fo to side and coming toward us with euch such gre gretat U rapidity that it looked like an old thresher at work it very quickly worked under our quarter and in the clear water we saw the urit fish out As it lay quiet within fifteen feet of the vessel it appeared to be about thirty feet long by three feet in circumference A smooth body showing no fins but the dorpals dor three of at them one short one say about a foot toot lone long near the head then halt half way down the body a long tall like on fin about seven feet long and about five binche i wide and near the tall a email small hind fin the tall was unlike a fish ending at a point without a fin the body was a deep pink color to the middle and darkening to a light brown at the tall the head was fully three feet long the mouth close to the top the eyes were large and close to the top of the head we had a good look at the fellow as he stayed by fully halt an hour then the mate got a shotgun aej as the fish lay with half halt of his upper tipper body exposed sent a charge of small shot in it evidently hurt him for he leaped out of the water mater half hia his length and sounded like a whale it came to the in a few seconds and it if it kept up the gal sa it started with the serpent la Is near tho western coast of africa by this time he ile make 4 no friend who never makes a foo fo |