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I. The Monster of the Seas
The year 1866 was marked by a strange event which nobody has forgotten yet. For some months ships at sea had been meeting “an enormous thing”, a long object shaped like a spindle. It was much larger than a whale and much faster, and at night it sometimes shone with a strange light.
On the twentieth of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. At first Captain Baker thought that it was an unknown rock, but then two columns of water shot from it a hundred and fifty feet into the air, and he knew that it was alive. Three days later another ship saw the same animal in the Pacific, more than seven hundred leagues away. Two weeks after that, two steamers saw it in the Atlantic, between America and Europe.