musing why we were so much favoured with such a strange visitor, and concluded that the band of white paint, two feet wide above the copper, might have looked like a fellow-serpent to it, and, no doubt, attracted its attention.... While thus thinking, I was startled by the cry of "There it is again," and a short distance to leeward, elevated some sixty feet in the air, was the great leviathan, grimly looking towards the vessel. As I was not sure it was only our free board it was viewing, we had all our axes ready, and were fully determined, should the brute embrace the _Pauline_, to chop away for its backbone with all our might, and the wretch might have found for once in its life that it had caught a Tartar. This statement is strictly true, and the occurrence was witnessed by my officers, half the crew, and myself; and we are ready, at any time, to testify on oath that it is so, and that we are not in the least mistaken.... A vessel, about three years ago, was dragged over by some sea-monster in the Indian Ocean. GEORGE DREVAR, Master of the _Pauline_. Chittagong, January 15, 1876. Captain George Drevar, of the barque _Pauline_, appeared on Wednesday morning at the Police-court, Dale-street, before Mr. Raffles, stipendiary magistrate, accompanied by some of his officers and part of the crew of the barque, when they made the following declaration:-- "We, the undersigned, captain, officers, and crew of the barque _Pauline_, of London, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on July 8th, 1875, in latitude 5° 13', longitude 35° W., we observed three large sperm whales, and one of them was gripped round the body with two turns of what appeared to be a large serpent. The head and tail appeared to have a length beyond the coils of about thirty feet, and its girth eight or nine feet. The serpent whirled its victim round and round for about fifteen minutes, and then suddenly dragged the whale to the bottom, head first. "GEORGE DREVAR, _Master_, "HORATIO THOMPSON, "HENDERSON LANDELLO, "OWEN BAKER, "WILLIAM LEWAN. "Again, on July 13th, a similar serpent was seen about two hundred yards off, shooting itself along the surface, head and neck being out of the water several feet. This was seen only by the captain and one ordinary seaman. "GEORGE DREVAR, _Master_. "A few moments after, it was seen elevated some sixty feet perpendicularly in the air by the chief officer and the following able seamen, Horatio Thompson, Owen Baker, William Lewan. And we make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true. "GEORGE DREVAR, _Master_, "WILLIAM LEWAN, _Steward_, "HORATIO THOMPSON, _Chief Officer_, "JOHN HENDERSON LANDELLO, _2nd Officer_, "OWEN BAKER."