2. The Octopus (_Octopus vulgaris_) 18 3. The Cuttle (_Sepia officinalis_) 21 4. Hooked Tentacles of _Onychoteuthis_ 23 5. Japanese fisherman attacked by a Cuttle 29 6. Arms of a great Cuttle exhibited in a Japanese fish-shop 29 7. Facsimile of De Montfort's "_Poulpe colossal_" 32 8. Gigantic Calamary caught by the French despatch vessel _Alecton_, near Teneriffe 39 9. Tentacle of a great Calamary (_Architeuthis princeps_) taken in Conception Bay, Newfoundland 43 10. Head and Tentacles of a great Calamary (_Architeuthis princeps_) taken in Logie Bay, Newfoundland 44 11. Jonah and the Sea Monster 55 12. Sea Serpent seizing a man on board ship 58 13. Gigantic Lobster dragging a man from a ship 58 14. Pontoppidan's "Sea Serpent" 63 15. The Animal drawn by Mr. Bing as having been seen by Egede 66 16. The Animal which Egede probably saw 67 17. The Sea Serpent of the Wernerian Society (_facsimile_) 69 18. A Calamary swimming at the surface of the sea 77 19. The Sea Serpent passing under the quarter of H.M.S. _Daedalus_ 81 20. The Sea Serpent and Sperm Whale as seen from the _Pauline_ 91 21. The Sea Serpent as seen from the _City of Baltimore_ 93 22. The Sea Serpent as seen from H.M. yacht _Osborne_. Phase 1 94 23. The Sea Serpent as seen from H.M. yacht _Osborne_. Phase 2 94 24. Skeleton of the _Plesiosaurus_, restored by Mr. Conybeare 98 25. The Sea Serpent on the Enaliosaurian hypothesis 100 SEA MONSTERS UNMASKED. THE KRAKEN. In the legends and traditions of northern nations, stories of the existence of a marine animal of such enormous size that it more resembled an island than an organised being frequently found a place. It is thus described in an ancient manuscript (about A.D. 1180), attributed to the Norwegian King Sverre; and the belief in it has been alluded to by other Scandinavian writers from an early period to the present day. It was an obscure and mysterious sea-monster, known as the Kraken, whose form and nature were imperfectly understood, and it was peculiarly the object of popular wonder and superstitious dread.