Tlie sea serpent must hide his di
minished head. The Italian journal,
It J)initto, tells a tale that settles him
completely. .Some Neapolitan fisher
men from the island of Ischia, it says,
pretend to have seen a marine mon
ster of an entirely new and terrible
order. They were out on the Bay of
Naples in stormy weather, when sud
denly they heard, mingled with the
howling of the wind, a sort of roaring
like that of a hungry lloii, but at
length concluded that it was only I lu
tein pest after all, and continued’their
way toward the land. But looking
aro’-nd again in a few moments, what
was their surprise itud horror to per
ceive at some distance, from them a
huge, unshapely, brownish mass, ap
proaching with extreme rapidity,
l portion of the monster visible
above water appeared to be about
eighteen feet in length and six feet in
thickness, and would have resembled
a huge serpent but for its head, which
looked like that of an orang-outang.
