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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
334
Jour.
Roy.
Met.
Soc.,
32-280:
Extract
from
a
letter
from
Mr.
Douglas
Carnegie,
Blackheath,
England.
Date
some
time
in
1906--
"This
last
voyage
we
witnessed
a
weird
and
most
extraordinary
electric
display."
In
the
Gulf
of
Oman,
he
saw
a
bank
of
apparently
quiescent
phosphorescence:
but,
when
within
twenty
yards
of
it,
"shafts
of
brilliant
light
came
sweeping
across
the
ship's
bows
at
a
prodigious
speed,
which
might
be
put
down
as
anything
between
60
and
200
miles
an
hour."
"These
light
bars
were
about
20
feet
apart
and
most
regular."
As
to
phosphorescence--"I
collected
a
bucketful
of
water,
and
examined
it
under
the
microscope,
but
could
not
detect
anything
abnormal."
That
the
shafts
of
light
came
up
from
something
beneath
the
surface--"They
first
struck
us
on
our
broadside,
and
I
noticed
that
an
intervening
ship
had
no
effect
on
the
light
beams:
they
started
away
from
the
lee
side
of
the
ship,
just
as
if
they
had
traveled
right
through
it."
The
Gulf
of
Oman
is
at
the
entrance
to
the
Persian
Gulf.
Jour.
Roy.
Met.
Soc.,
33-294:
Extract
from
a
letter
by
Mr.
S.C.
Patterson,
second
officer
of
the
P.
and
O.
steamship
Delta:
a
spectacle
which
the
Journal
continues
to
call
phosphorescent:
Malacca
Strait,
2
A.M.,
March
14,
1907:
"...
shafts
which
seemed
to
move
round
a
center--like
the
spokes
of
a
wheel--and
appeared
to
be
about
300
yards
long.
The
phenomenon
lasted
about
half
an
hour,
during
which
time
the
ship
had
traveled
six
or
seven
miles.
It
stopped
suddenly."
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