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cannot discover, at first sight, that this visible and
invisible Gumars-ore, with its points and
prognostications of fish, cannot possibly be anything else
but the Kraken, Krabben, or Soe-horven,
improperly placed on a map by Buraeus as an island.
Probably the creature keeps himself always about
that spot, and often rises up amongst the rocks
and cliffs.”
The above extracts refer only to the general
appearances in which all agree, omitting
particular and unauthenticated accounts of the
monster being stranded and poisoning the atmosphere
and the waters, another of his skin being left
behind and used as a table-cover, &c., as well as
those of fishermen having their hands poisoned by
the water surrounding the animal, and of boats
seized by his tentacles.
These details are very contradictory, some
evidently describe large cuttle-fish, and the stinging
of medusæ, exaggerated by fear and superstition.
Underlying all these contradictions and absurdities
there is the continually repeated and harmonious
statement, that the monster is seen during July
and August, and only when the weather is calm,
and just in those localities where low islands
abound. He disappears directly the wind rises,
i. e. when the heated air to which I ascribe the
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