The Great Sea SerpentCosimo, Inc., 1. aug. 2007 - 444 sider Mysterious and strange are the ocean depths, but pioneering cyptozoologist ANTOON CORNELIS OUDEMANS (1858-1943) attempted to bring some order to the realm with this 1892 survey of the reports of monsters of the sea, the first of its kind. Gathering sightings from around the globe and across the centuries, Oudemans eliminates the obvious hoaxes or honest mistakes and then, from dozens of legitimate sighting, draws conclusions about sea-serpent physiology, geographic distribution, and more. This astonishing book "still influences thoughts and theories about the great unknowns in the oceans," says cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction in this edition, part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. |
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Side 41
... surface of the water when nearly approached . We understand that a party from this place has been made up to capture him , if possible . The plan is to man two large flats with a cannon to each , one going below where he is repre ...
... surface of the water when nearly approached . We understand that a party from this place has been made up to capture him , if possible . The plan is to man two large flats with a cannon to each , one going below where he is repre ...
Side 43
... surface , that could not be less than 120 feet in length . In shape it resembled a long funnel of an immense steamer . Unfor- tunately they were not sufficiently near the monster to give a description , of the head and body . After ...
... surface , that could not be less than 120 feet in length . In shape it resembled a long funnel of an immense steamer . Unfor- tunately they were not sufficiently near the monster to give a description , of the head and body . After ...
Side 47
... surface and caught a glimpse of the writhing body , and was again struck and carried down . I partly lost my consciousness under water but recovered it , when I rose again in the bloody foam , the snake had disappeared , and I shouted ...
... surface and caught a glimpse of the writhing body , and was again struck and carried down . I partly lost my consciousness under water but recovered it , when I rose again in the bloody foam , the snake had disappeared , and I shouted ...
Side 49
... surface , displaying 30 feet length of his body . On Monday morning all were on the alert . At nine o'clock the snake appeared between the whaleman's boat and the shore : he lay quiescent on the surface , and the whaleman's boat moved ...
... surface , displaying 30 feet length of his body . On Monday morning all were on the alert . At nine o'clock the snake appeared between the whaleman's boat and the shore : he lay quiescent on the surface , and the whaleman's boat moved ...
Side 52
... surface the females became greatly alarmed , when Mr. John Hingston , who is a remarkably good shot , fired at it , upon which it immediately disappeared . Mr. Townsend informed us the serpent presented a beautiful appearance , having ...
... surface the females became greatly alarmed , when Mr. John Hingston , who is a remarkably good shot , fired at it , upon which it immediately disappeared . Mr. Townsend informed us the serpent presented a beautiful appearance , having ...
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The Great Sea-serpent: An Historical and Critical Treatise Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2007 |
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Side 96 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Side 96 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Side 218 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Side 210 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock PM on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
Side 15 - The Journal of Science • and the Arts, edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, published quarterly, Bd.
Side 221 - I had never seen his account, or even heard of his sea-serpent, until my arrival in London. Some other solution must therefore be found for the very remarkable coincidence between us in that particular, in order to unravel the mystery. " Finally, I deny the existence of excitement or the possibility of optical illusion. I adhere to the statements, as to form, colour, and dimensions, contained in my official report to the Admiralty, and I leave them as data whereupon the learned and scientific may...
Side 252 - S., long. 35° W., we observed three large sperm - whales, and one of them was gripped round the body with two turns of what appeared to be a huge serpent. The head and tail appeared to have a length beyond the coils of about thirty feet, and its girth eight or nine feet.