The Great Sea SerpentCosimo, Inc., 2007 M08 1 - 444 páginas 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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... body , from which they rebounded , as if they had struck against a rock . The serpent shook his head and tail in an ... body below the neck is not less than six feet ; the size of the head is in proportion to that of his body . He is of ...
... body , from which they rebounded , as if they had struck against a rock . The serpent shook his head and tail in an ... body below the neck is not less than six feet ; the size of the head is in proportion to that of his body . He is of ...
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... body , resembling an alligator , which sometimes moved with the vessel , sometimes lay motionless on the surface . Capt . Deland , who perceived that he approached the animal , loaded a musket with a ball , and steered so , that he ...
... body , resembling an alligator , which sometimes moved with the vessel , sometimes lay motionless on the surface . Capt . Deland , who perceived that he approached the animal , loaded a musket with a ball , and steered so , that he ...
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... body above water , and which appeared to be rub- bing or scratching itself against the beacon , was fully thirty feet long , and in diameter I should say about a fathom . With the aid of a glass it was observed that the eyes were of ...
... body above water , and which appeared to be rub- bing or scratching itself against the beacon , was fully thirty feet long , and in diameter I should say about a fathom . With the aid of a glass it was observed that the eyes were of ...
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... body had a motion like the waving of a rope when shaken and held in the hand . Every eye in the ship regarded it attentively , and not a word was spoken or sound uttered . In a few minutes the whole length of the body rose and lay on ...
... body had a motion like the waving of a rope when shaken and held in the hand . Every eye in the ship regarded it attentively , and not a word was spoken or sound uttered . In a few minutes the whole length of the body rose and lay on ...
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... 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 , ' pick up the line ' . The third mate Mr ...
... 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 , ' pick up the line ' . The third mate Mr ...
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The Great Sea-serpent: An Historical and Critical Treatise Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
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Página 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...
Página 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.