W. Sullivan, Captain Rifle Brigade, June 21, 1831. A. Maclachlan, Lieut. „ „ August 5, 1824. G. P. Malcolm, Ensign „ „ August 13, 1830. B. O’Neal Lyster, Lieut. Artillery, June 7, 1816. Henry Ince, Storekeeper at Halifax. The dates affixed to the names were those on which the gentlemen received their respective commissions. Great interest was excited in 1848 by an account of a great sea‐serpent seen in lat. 24° 44’ S., and long. 9° 20’ E., in the tropics, and not very far from the coast of Africa, by the officers and crew of her Majesty’s frigate _Dædalus_. It was not, as in other cases, in bright and fine weather, but on a dark and cloudy afternoon, and with a long ocean swell. Captain Peter M‘Quhæ, in his report to the Admiralty, published in the _Times_ for the 13th of October, describes it with confidence as “an enormous serpent, with head and shoulders kept about four feet constantly above the surface of the sea;” and he adds: “As nearly as we could approximate by comparing it with the length of what our main topsail‐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 undulation. It passed rapidly, but so close under our lee‐quarter that had it been a man of my acquaintance I should have easily recognised his features with the naked eye; but it did not, either in approaching the ship or after it had passed our wake, deviate in the slightest degree from its course to the south‐west, which it held on at the pace of from twelve to fifteen miles per hour, apparently on some determined purpose. The diameter of the serpent was about fifteen or sixteen inches behind the head, which was without doubt that of a snake; and it was never during the twenty minutes that it continued in sight of our glasses once below the surface of the water; its colour a dark brown with yellowish white about the throat. It had no fins, but something like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of sea‐weed washed about its back.” [Illustration: THE GREAT SEA‐SERPENT WHEN FIRST SEEN FROM H.M.S. _DÆDALUS_. (_After a Drawing by Captain M‘Quhæ, sent to the Lords of the Admiralty, October, 1848._)]