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"I am having a drawing of the serpent made from a sketch taken immediately after it was seen, which I hope to have ready for transmission to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty by to-morrow's posts. "I have, etcetera, "Peter McQubae, Captain. "To Admiral Sir WH Gage, GCH, Devonport."
I may add, that, shortly afterwards, I really took the trouble to overhaul a pile of the local papers to see whether Jim's account of the report made by the captain of the Daedalus to the Lords of the Admiralty was substantially true; and, strange to say, I discovered amongst the numbers of the Hampshire Telegraph for the year 1848, the following copy of a letter forwarded by Captain McQubae to the admiral in command at Devonport dockyard at the date mentioned:
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