Eureka Reporter | 1903-05-29 | Page 3 | "Portuguese Man-of-War"

portuguese MAN OF WAR beamut ful but dangerous creature or of the tropic seas A very beautiful form of stinging animal is the Phy salla or portuguese man alan of war this tropical organism consists of a bladder like float on the under surface of which are the num erous little beings that compose the living colony contact with thia this strange creature Is of a highly injure ous nature one observer has des bribed the effects of its thread cells on his body as it if be he bad had plunged his arm up to the shoulder in boiling water mr air bennett a noted traveler in the tropics tells us that not merely was the pain he experienced after con tact with the Phy salla very acute but a great deal of irritation prevailed through his system generally fishes coming in contact with the offensive tentacles of the man of war pre paralyzed and it is said that a phy salla the size of a walnut will instant ly kill a fish as big as a herring