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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 402, 23 September 1876, Page 2

A correspondent to the Bombay Gazette says that on the last voyage of the P. and O. Company's steamship Hydaspes, from Bombay to Aden, a creature was discovered following the vessel, and was seen by every one except the Captain. “It was composed of a dark mass looking like tangled seaweed, over 30ft. long and 10ft. wide, crowned with a huge black head, with a flat top like a toad, a thick fringe of reddish hair over the mouth, and bright copper-hued scrutinising eyes. The monster followed peacefully enough till aroused by the cries of some children, when it raised itself out of the water, gave a hideous bellow, and aimed three blows at the mainmast. The last touched the mast, making the ship sway violently.” As a warrant of good faith of the statement the writer gives his name. The Editor.—lf he rejects an article, he gets a long letter calling his attention to its non-appearance. If he gives it a place in the columns of his paper, the public wonders he has no more respect for their taste than to attempt to entertain them with such trash If he sustain the views of one class of thinkers, he is called a fool and an innovator by the other. If he vacates this position and advocates the doctrines of the opposing sect, those who first patted him on the back in token of their sympathy, now call him “ renegade I turn-coat 1 thief and liar!” If he takes up an independent position and brings forward views of his own, all then unite in stigmatising him as an idiot or a madman. If he remains neutral, then again he is assailed on all hands as a coward, time-servier and trimmer, besides incurring the suspicion or distrust even of his friends.—Exchange.