THE OCTOPUS.
A sensational narrative has been going the rounds of the press relating 1 the destruction of a schooner by a gigantic squid. On this subject a correspondent of the Field says:— With regard to the supposed loss of the Pearl schooner, 150 tons burden, James Lloyd, master, through being attacked by an octopus while on a voyage from Mauritius to Rangoon (a notice of which has appeared in your columns), I bee: to state that no mention of the existence of such a schooner can be discovered, after careful search, in any of the shipping registers of any nation ; neither is the existence of such a steamer as the Strathowen recorded as the ship which professes to have witnessed the catastrophe. I may add that no authentic account of the loss of the schooner has reached Lloyd's."
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1225, 3 November 1874, Page 4
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139THE OCTOPUS. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1225, 3 November 1874, Page 4
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