The 18-foot Devil-Fish on the Deck of the Arcturus.
It had been bleeding pretty heavily and there was a big trail of blood all the way to the shore, and some sharks were following this up.
It measured eighteen feet across from wing to wing and weighed 2400 pounds. And after they started dissecting it they found an unborn ray that weighed 28 pounds and made a perfect specimen to preserve and take back to the New York Zoological Society.
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MOLTEN LAVA
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We were sailing along the east coast of Albemarle Island for we wanted to know if the volcano we had seen in eruption on Easter Sunday, nearly two months before, was still in eruption. We were almost there, practically on the Equator, and we recognized the columns of smoke half way up the side of the mountain.