Then, in 1829, there is a description of such a creature, seen in the Indian seas, which tallies, on the whole, with the later joint account of Captain McQuhæ and Lieutenant Drummond, of H.M.S. _Dædalus_, in 1848. Captain McQuhæ describes the creature that he saw, as an “enormous serpent, with head and shoulders kept about four feet constantly above the surface of the sea,” and “as nearly,” he says, “as we could approximate, by comparing it with the length of what our maintopsail yard would show in the water, there was, at the very least, sixty feet of the animal _à fleur d’eau_, no portion of which was, to our perception, used in propelling it through the water, either by vertical or horizontal undulations. There seemed to be as much as thirty or forty feet of tail, as well.” This great serpent, which, however, by this computation, would not have been so large as the largest whales, “passed the ship rapidly, but so close under our lee-quarter, that had it been a man of my acquaintance I should easily have recognised his features with the naked eye. It had no fins, but there was something like the mane of a horse, or, rather, a bunch of seaweed, washing about its back.” It swam at about the rate of fifteen miles an hour, and was in sight for a full twenty minutes. Lieutenant Drummond thought the creature looked more like an eel than a snake. It had, he thought, “a back fin ten feet long, and also a tail fin.” The head, too, he describes, I think, as of a somewhat different shape, and says that it was “rather raised and occasionally dipping.” Still, there is nothing in the one account that is irreconcilable with the other, nor is it often the case that two people, seeing the same thing, describe it in just the same way. The _Dædalus_ at the time that this creature was seen, was somewhere between the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena.