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Show BjOM) after Sword Fish Attack School of Whales and Spectacle After Is Horrifying Li.D(X, .Tan 21. That the monsters mon-sters of the deep fl'ht in groups as well as engage in perspna encounters if; testified to by Captain G Kverd Poole; s commander; in the Gold Coast colony Who writes th- following to his brother; "Between Sierra Leone and Sekondi we steamed through for over an hour. a blood-red sea. and saw some hundreds hund-reds of whales dead or dying on the surface of the water sJ.ime were Just able to move slowly along.; few if any1 would move. quickly. Ther must havel been a sanguinary battle, supposed to l have been put up by sword fish. It was a most appalling sight and the K-tent K-tent of the blood v expanse must have represented the death of many more whales than were visible. No one on our ship had ever seen or even heard, of anything approaching such a spec- tacle before." |