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"Yes; but so little, it can hardly be called eating." "He must be a vampire." "Laugh, if you will; the Countess G , who knew Lord Ruthven, declared that the count was a vampire." "Ah, capital," said Beauchamp. "For a man not connected with newspapers, here is the pendant to the famous sea-serpent of the Constitutionnel."
Anyway we had seen the sea-serpent, though not the fabulous monster so often written about, and yet whose existence cannot be disproved. The sea-serpent's tail is flattened. At Calcutta I visited a tea firm, who sent me up to Cachar to help at one of the gardens till a vacancy should occur. Calcutta, by the way, is or was overrun by jackals at night.
A short examination convinced me that what I saw was the head of some mighty marine monster, nothing more nor less than the great sea-serpent, and that the elevation I had seen was his upper jaw.
There was a short laugh at this, and an illogical man of the group made some irrelevant observation which led the conversation into a totally different channel, and relegated the great sea-serpent, for the time being, to oblivion! While the men were thus engaged philosophising in the bow, Bladud and the captain were chatting in subdued voices in the stern.
The wild creatures of land and sea the tiger, the rhinoceros, the crocodile, the sea-serpent, the shark, and the devil-fish surrounded the accursed Wanderer in a mystic circle, daunted and fascinated at the sight of him. The lightning was gone. The sky and sea had darkened to a great black blank.
"Got him!" exclaimed an enthusiast eagerly. "Don't be too sure," replied a philosopher cautiously. "It may be a bit of wreck," suggested Ebenezer Smith, who was a natural doubter. "Or a whale, or the great sea-serpent," said the sporting electrician, who was everything by turns and nothing long. "We shall very soon know," remarked a matter-of-fact engineer.
He immediately jumped down to the chief mate’s cabin and told him what he had seen. They both went on deck, the mate armed with a loaded pistol and my brother with a cutlass. By this time the serpent—for it was a sea-serpent—had twisted itself round the bowsprit of the vessel, and was about twenty feet long. The boatswain, hearing the noise, came on deck.
No doubt many of these combats, witnessed from merchant ships, have led to many sea-serpent stories; for when a thresher stands his twenty feet of slender body straight up on end like a pole, he presents a strange sight, as his long body sways, and curves, and twists in air, as he deals his cutting blows upon his victim.
It is here that we find the original of our modern acquaintance, the sea-serpent, described as being "of huge size, so that he kills and devours large stags, and is able to cross the ocean;" and the wonders of the unknown world are enunciated with a circumstantial minuteness which must have easily won the credence of a willing disciple like Columbus.
"An' w'at's yon monster crawlin' over the farthest plain, like the great sea-serpent?" "Why, man," returned the scout, "them's the waggins. Come, now, let's to work an' git the fire lit. The cart wi' the chuck an' tents'll be here in a few minutes, an' the waggins won't be long arter 'em."
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