Again, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Steele, of the Coldstream Guards, wrote to the _Zoologist_: "I have lately received the following account from my brother, Captain Steele, 9th Lancers, who, on his way out to India in the _Barham_, saw the sea-serpent. Thinking it might be interesting to you, as corroborating the account of the _Dædalus_, I have taken the liberty of sending you the extract from my brother's letter:--'On the 28th of August, in long. 40° E., lat. 37° 16' S., about half-past two, we had all gone down below to get ready for dinner, when the first mate called us on deck to see a most extraordinary sight. About five hundred yards from the ship there was the head and neck of an enormous snake; we saw about sixteen or twenty feet out of the water, and he _spouted_ a long way from his head; down his back he had a crest like a cock's comb,[263] and was going very slowly through the water, but left a wake of about fifty or sixty feet, as if dragging a long body after him. The captain put the ship off her course to run down to him, but as we approached him he went down. His colour was green, with light spots. _He was seen by everyone on board._' My brother is no naturalist; and I think this is the first time the monster has ever been seen to spout." One of the officers of the ship wrote: "On looking over the side of the vessel I saw a most wonderful sight, which I shall recollect as long as I live. His head appeared to be about sixteen feet above the water, and he kept moving it up and down, sometimes showing his enormous neck, which was surmounted with a huge crest in the shape of a saw. It was surrounded by hundreds of birds, and we at first thought it was a dead whale. He left a track in the water like the wake of a boat, and from what we could see of his head and part of his body, we were led to think he must be about sixty feet in length, but he might be more. The captain kept the vessel away to get nearer to him; and when we were within a hundred yards he slowly sank into the depths of the sea. While we were at dinner he was seen again." The _Times_, of Feb. 5, 1858, contains a statement made by Captain Harrington, of the ship _Castilian_, and certified to by his chief and second officers, as follows:--