Show SEA SE SERPENT aur festive old friend slotted sighted off brazil I 1 I 1 the sea gea serpent has hao been discovered tho monster was located off the coast of brazil its discoverers were not wicked sailor habitually acro leaa handlers of the truth but solemn olet nu nell men of gele science Uee and they told their I 1 gigantic fish fiah B story to a prave assemblage of scientists at ahk meeting of the zoological rocie society ty last night it was war on december 7 last that tho the monster was war so go to speak run to earth lord crawford them the enthusiastic scientist took a party of other scientists for a six month sL arule in his bis yacht Valli valhalla allt list last winter in december while they were cruising oft off brazil about latitude 7 min 14 see sec lonal longitude tude 34 min 25 see sec two vigilant investigators in the party mead waldo the well known amateur naturalist and J N nicoll coll the professional naturalist saw the monster an unknown animal seen been in the sea was the description which sir waldo gave last night about a quarter past 10 in the morning said bald he mr air nicoll drew my attention to an object in the sea about yards from the yacht he said Is that the fin of ofa a areat reat flah fish I 1 looked and saw a large larg d fin or frill sticking out of the water brown town in color and crinkled on the edge the frill was apparently about six feet in length and stood eighteen inches or two feet out of the water just under the surface of the wat er we vre saw the shape ot of a considerable body A great head and neck together seven or eight feet long rose out of the water in front of this athla frill the neck was about the thickness of the body of a slight man 1 the head which was of about the same thickness had a very turtle like appearance we were sailing pretty fast and we quickly drew away from the object it moved its head from side to aldo aide in a peculiar liar manner 55 then mr waldo added a touch characteristic of many fish stories since I 1 saw the creature he said 1 I consider on reflect reflection lon that it was probably considerably larger than ft appeared to me ht at first mr account of tho the fearsome ni monster onster wak strongly coi its eel efel like neck fully six i or seven even I 1 feet long was of the thickness of f a mans thigh and its head was like the bead of a turtle he said it lashed the water with a curious wriggling movement the next day the first mate and third mate noticed a in the water and wit without houlf any knowledge of what mr waldo a aad d mr nicoll N had seen they described a monster which appears to be identical with the ino which was first sighted by tho the scientists the samo same creature undoubtedly was considerately hovering hovering around the scientists ship they both maintained emphatically that it was not a whala vh ate declared doc lared d mr nicoll and they said piat ht ape they had never seen anything like it before I 1 1 lord crawford with a laugh told old tho the zoological society that both mr waldo and mr nicoll were vere pale and excessively emotional when thy re ported their discovery to him dini and if they had had a camera they could never have taken a photograph for or their hands were 1 halting terribly someone not far froni from the chairman sir edmund loder suggested that lord crawford should return i in his yacht and bag it AT Boulan the well known authority on reptiles suggested that the creature seemed to bear some resemblance to the famous tonquin sea serpent monster discovered three years ago mr waldo and mr nicoll both declined to hazard agless as to the creatures I 1 1 length I 1 was it 11 one hundred bundred feet whispered the morning Moro liiK leader representative in mr ear car 1 I cant say anything abo aboul ut it was I 1 the canny canev response I 1 I 1 an the zoological society was left wondering london leader leg der r |