A MONSTER SEA SERPENT.
(per press association)
[by electric telegraph.—copyright.
Eeceived this day at 9 29 a.m. Melbourne, May 16.
The owner of a fishing smack reports that while sailing off Gippsland a monster resembling a serpent rushed the boat and bit a planking, leaving two teeth embedded in it. It lushed the water with foam for a distance of sixty yards as it disappeared. The report adds that -owing to the darkness this was the only indication of the serpents size.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 May 1901, Page 3
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82A MONSTER SEA SERPENT. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 May 1901, Page 3
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