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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
333
Journal
of
the
Royal
Meteorological
Society,
28-29:
That,
upon
April
4,
1901,
about
8:30,
in
the
Persian
Gulf,
Captain
Hoseason,
of
the
steamship
Kilwa,
according
to
a
paper
read
before
the
Society
by
Captain
Hoseason,
was
sailing
in
a
sea
in
which
there
was
no
phosphorescence--"there
being
no
phosphorescence
in
the
water."
I
suppose
I'll
have
to
repeat
that:
"...
there
being
no
phosphorescence
in
the
water."
Vast
shafts
of
light--though
the
captain
uses
the
word
"ripples"--suddenly
appeared.
Shaft
followed
shaft,
upon
the
surface
of
the
sea.
But
it
was
only
a
faint
light,
and,
in
about
fifteen
minutes,
died
out:
having
appeared
suddenly,
having
died
out
gradually.
The
shafts
revolved
at
a
velocity
of
about
60
miles
an
hour.
Phosphorescent
jellyfish
correlate
with
the
Old
Dominant:
in
one
of
the
most
heroic
compositions
of
disregards
in
our
experience,
it
was
agreed,
in
the
discussion
of
Capt.
Hoseason's
paper,
that
the
phenomenon
was
probably
pulsations
of
long
strings
of
jellyfish.
Nature,
21-410:
Reprint
of
a
letter
from
R.E.
Harris,
Commander
of
the
A.H.N.
Co.'s
steamship
Shahjehan,
to
the
Calcutta
Englishman,
Jan.
21,
1880:
That
upon
the
5th
of
June,
1880,
off
the
coast
of
Malabar,
at
10
P.M.,
water
calm,
sky
cloudless,
he
had
seen
something
that
was
so
foreign
to
anything
that
he
had
ever
seen
before,
that
he
had
stopped
his
ship.
He
saw
what
he
describes
as
waves
of
brilliant
light,
with
spaces
between.
Upon
the
water
were
floating
patches
of
a
substance
that
was
not
identified.
Thinking
in
terms
of
the
conventional
explanation
of
all
phosphorescence
at
sea,
the
captain
at
first
suspected
this
substance.
However,
he
gives
his
opinion
that
it
did
no
illuminating
but
was,
with
the
rest
of
the
sea,
illuminated
by
tremendous
shafts
of
light.
Whether
it
was
a
thick
and
oily
discharge
from
the
engine
of
a
submerged
construction
or
not,
I
think
that
I
shall
have
to
accept
this
substance
as
a
concomitant,
because
of
another
note.
"As
wave
succeeded
wave,
one
of
the
most
grand
and
brilliant,
yet
solemn,
spectacles
that
one
could
think
of,
was
here
witnessed."
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