When crossing the great Herring Pond in the _Arctic_, the passengers were all summoned on deck from dinner to see that mystery of the deep, the sea-serpent.

It was very rough at the time, and certainly within a little distance some apparent monster hundreds of feet long was rolling on the top of the waves: _but_ as some portions of it spouted, we soon saw there nothing but a school of whales, the big bull leading and the cows and calves following in a line.

This looked like the real thing,--but wasn't.

From other evidence, however, and the Rev.J.G.Wood supplies one, I do believe there are such monsters of the deep whose nest is in the Sargasso Sea.
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Here is a curious item of my biography.