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262 CURIOUS CREATURES.
were sixteen feet long, the pedal arms about half as
long, and its body seven feet. The French ship Alccton,
on 3Oth November 1861, between Madeira and Teneriffe,
slipped a rope with a running knot over an enormous
calamary, but only brought a portion on board, the
body breaking off. It was estimated at being sixteen
to eighteen feet in length, without counting its arms.
The legend of its sinking ships and taking sailors from
them is common to many countries, even the Chinese
and Japanese thus depicting them.
Olaus Magnus gives us a graphic picture of a huge
Polyp, thus seizing a sailor, and dragging him from
his ship in spite of all his efforts to prevent him. On
next page is a huge calamary shown with a man in
its clutches. This is both in Gesner and Aldrovandus.
But this terror to mariners had its master in the Conger
eel. Gesner, who has taken his picture from some de-
scription of the World, introduces it as a Sea-Serpent ;
but Aristotle says that "the Congers devour the

Polypi, which cannot adhere to them on account of the
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Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus. throughout the text.
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23575017
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32031 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images)
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Page 262
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NameFound:Magnus
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  • Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus. throughout the text.
  • Monsters Are Real
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