For decades in the 19th and even early 20th centuries, sea serpent sightings were commonplace. Most famously, the crew of HMS Daedalus supposedly watched one for more than 20 minutes in 1848. Not long ...
IN the biography of Commodore Preble, by J. Fenimore Cooper, there is a very wise and noteworthy passage : — “ There appears an indisposition in the human mind to acknowledge that others have seen ...