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80-Foot Sea Serpent Has Pacific Coast Guessing
SEATTLE, October 18 – (Associated Press) – The camel-headed sea serpent of Point Cadboro started a controversy that raged today from the Strait of Juan de Fuca up toward Prince of Wales archipelago, and it won’t be settled unless the monster lays an egg.
The egg is to determine the sex of the 80-foot nightmare reported by two-score citizens of all degrees, so they can decide on a name.
“Hiaschukoluk,” meaning “big water snake,” was the temporary name given the reptile in the states, but the Canadian press reported Victoria taxpayers, understanding the word as “hiachuckaluck,” which they interpret as “big gamble,” said indignantly there was no gambling about the snake as the great number of eyewitnesses made it a sure thing.
Point Cadboro, B.C., where the camel-headed one was first reported this season, dubbed it “cadborosaurus,” or “caddy” for short, and reserved all rights. other points said “cadborosaurus” was merely a generic name, and that the snake should be called “Amy” to distinguish it from Ogopogo, the noted 60-foot sheep-headed water-dragon hundreds claimed to have seen in Okanogan Lake, B.C.
“It’s probably the wife of Ogopogo,”said E. J. Dalby, Seattle fish expert and marine editor, “as it was seen preening its scales on the rocks at Point Cadboro. If it is a giant conger eel, some of the seven and eight-foot eels caught and photographed in this region may be the offspring.”
Don Bellamy, George Neil and Harry Olson of Victoria said today they saw the serpent near Chemainus river Sunday and it “left a wake like a speedboat.”
No photographs of the monster have been brought in, but Canadians have a picture of a strange creature tossed up on the Pacific coast some years ago. It had a giant head and an underslung jaw “like a conger eel or a camel,” but was “nowhere near 60 feet long.” (The Tampa Morning Tribune, October 19, 1933.)
SEATTLE, October 18 – (Associated Press) – The camel-headed sea serpent of Point Cadboro started a controversy that raged today from the Strait of Juan de Fuca up toward Prince of Wales archipelago, and it won’t be settled unless the monster lays an egg.
The egg is to determine the sex of the 80-foot nightmare reported by two-score citizens of all degrees, so they can decide on a name.
“Hiaschukoluk,” meaning “big water snake,” was the temporary name given the reptile in the states, but the Canadian press reported Victoria taxpayers, understanding the word as “hiachuckaluck,” which they interpret as “big gamble,” said indignantly there was no gambling about the snake as the great number of eyewitnesses made it a sure thing.
Point Cadboro, B.C., where the camel-headed one was first reported this season, dubbed it “cadborosaurus,” or “caddy” for short, and reserved all rights. other points said “cadborosaurus” was merely a generic name, and that the snake should be called “Amy” to distinguish it from Ogopogo, the noted 60-foot sheep-headed water-dragon hundreds claimed to have seen in Okanogan Lake, B.C.
“It’s probably the wife of Ogopogo,”said E. J. Dalby, Seattle fish expert and marine editor, “as it was seen preening its scales on the rocks at Point Cadboro. If it is a giant conger eel, some of the seven and eight-foot eels caught and photographed in this region may be the offspring.”
Don Bellamy, George Neil and Harry Olson of Victoria said today they saw the serpent near Chemainus river Sunday and it “left a wake like a speedboat.”
No photographs of the monster have been brought in, but Canadians have a picture of a strange creature tossed up on the Pacific coast some years ago. It had a giant head and an underslung jaw “like a conger eel or a camel,” but was “nowhere near 60 feet long.” (The Tampa Morning Tribune, October 19, 1933.)