PERILOUS EXPERIENCE.
BOAT ATTACKED BY 1500 HUGE OCTOPUSES.
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Paris, Nov. 20.
Some French fithermen, raising a dragnet at Erguy Bay, found at least fifteen hundred huge octopuses, with projecting arms fastening to the side of the vessel. Tho use of hatchets, tho outting of the cable, and loss of tbe net alone prevented the capsizing of the Graft. Tbe tentacles of the ootopuses poisoned two sailors.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1939, 22 November 1906, Page 2
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69PERILOUS EXPERIENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1939, 22 November 1906, Page 2
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