THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE — NOVEMBER 01, 1892
THE BIGGEST SEA SERPENT STORY—The mail steamer Angola arrived at Liverpool Thursday with the biggest sea serpent story yet told. Either the one hundred or more officers, passengers and crew are a company of awful liars, or his majesty, the sea serpent, mysteriously missing this season from the American coast, has emigrated to West Africa. This is the story of the witnesses sigued by everybody on board.
While the vessel was steaming between Bay Beach and Lagos, a long, moving mass was discerned about a mile from shore. There were no fins or flappers to be seen, but the leviathan was proceeding along at the rate of five or six miles an hour by an undulating, wriggling motion. It was traveling in an opposite direction to that in which the steamer was going, and it was kept in sight for more than ten minutes. It was estimated that its length would be about 200 feet. The water at the time was as smooth as a mill pond, so that an unobstructed view of the monster could be had. At one time it raised its enormous head and looked in the direction of the ship, showing two tremendous green eyes. It was broad daylight at the time, and when first seen the creature was within easy distance, being readily discerned by the naked eye, and the glasses which were used only confirmed the opinion that it was a sea serpent.
From— Alexandria Gazette. (Alexandria, D.C.), 01 Nov. 1892. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
