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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 94, 4 March 1876, Page 2

A SEA SERPENT IN CONFLICT WITH A WHALE. The Zanzibar correspondent of the Western Morning News,” writing’ under date of October 20th, says . “ The barque Pauline lias arrived at Zanzibar with coals for her Majesty’s ships. When off the Cape St. Iloque, South America, a sight was presented that made the crow aghast—nothing less than the great sea serpent engaged in a conflict with a whale. I, had wound itself twice round the whalesand was twirling it with tremeudout velocity, lashing the water into foam. The noise could be distinctly heard on board, and after battling for some time both disappeared. The serpent’s length can be imagined. It had two coils around a full-sized sperm whale, with 80 feet clear at each end. Its diameter was from 3 to 4 feet. They saw it twice afterwards. Once it came close to the vessel, and raised itself about 60 feet out of the water, as if about to attack them. I have questioned men and officers, trying to find out any discrepancy between their statennents, but am a convert to the belief that it was seen.” Another naval officer writes to the “ Western Morning News” to precisely the same effect; and the officers of Her Majesty’s ships on the station aro asked to he convinced ot the truth of the theory.—“ Liverpool Courier-’