Subject: Fwd: what is this?

From: "Giovante Middaugh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:36:56 -0100

There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary creature, from the white whale, the terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean!!!

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Before eight days were over the Abraham Lincoln would be ploughing the waters of the Pacific: Where, when, and how was it built? and how could its construction have been kept secret? Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine? As public interest was in question, and transatlantic communications suffered, their veracity could not be doubted.