therefore could not stop long under water. The arms and hands were particularly human, hut on a smaller scale than would have been proportionate with a human.
    As they hung on the wall, with tail touching the ground, they were very much taller than a man. They had no scales, but their skin looked like parchment, and was that color. The genital parts were exactly human. The Arabs, who know every inch of the Arabian coast, always maintained that there were such creatures inhabiting these seas, and we need not go back to the stories of “The Arabian Nights” for confirmation.

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