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"
No
;
in
a
church
,
"
replied
Conseil
.
"
In
a
church
!
"
cried
the
Canadian
.
"
Yes
;
friend
Ned
.
In
a
picture
representing
the
poulp
in
question
.
"
"
Good
!
"
said
Ned
Land
,
bursting
out
laughing
.
"
He
is
quite
right
,
"
I
said
.
"
I
have
heard
of
this
picture
;
but
the
subject
represented
is
taken
from
a
legend
,
and
you
know
what
to
think
of
legends
in
the
matter
of
natural
history
.
Besides
,
when
it
is
a
question
of
monsters
,
the
imagination
is
apt
to
run
wild
.
Not
only
is
it
supposed
that
these
poulps
can
draw
down
vessels
,
but
a
certain
Olaus
Magnus
speaks
of
an
octopus
a
mile
long
that
is
more
like
an
island
than
an
animal
.
It
is
also
said
that
the
Bishop
of
Nidros
was
building
an
altar
on
an
immense
rock
.
Mass
finished
,
the
rock
began
to
walk
,
and
returned
to
the
sea
.
The
rock
was
a
poulp
.
Another
Bishop
,
Pontoppidan
,
speaks
also
of
a
poulp
on
which
a
regiment
of
cavalry
could
manoeuvre
.
Lastly
,
the
ancient
naturalists
speak
of
monsters
whose
mouths
were
like
gulfs
,
and
which
were
too
large
to
pass
through
the
Straits
of
Gibraltar
.
"
"
But
how
much
is
true
of
these
stories
?
"
asked
Conseil
.
"
Nothing
,
my
friends
;
at
least
of
that
which
passes
the
limit
of
truth
to
get
to
fable
or
legend
.
Nevertheless
,
there
must
be
some
ground
for
the
imagination
of
the
story-tellers
.
One
can
not
deny
that
poulps
and
cuttlefish
exist
of
a
large
species
,
inferior
,
however
,
to
the
cetaceans
.
Aristotle
has
stated
the
dimensions
of
a
cuttlefish
as
five
cubits
,
or
nine
feet
two
inches
.
Our
fishermen
frequently
see
some
that
are
more
than
four
feet
long
.
Some
skeletons
of
poulps
are
preserved
in
the
museums
of
Trieste
and
Montpelier
,
that
measure
two
yards
in
length
.
Besides
,
according
to
the
calculations
of
some
naturalists
,
one
of
these
animals
only
six
feet
long
would
have
tentacles
twenty-seven
feet
long
.
That
would
suffice
to
make
a
formidable
monster
.
"
"
Do
they
fish
for
them
in
these
days
?
"
asked
Ned
.
"
If
they
do
not
fish
for
them
,
sailors
see
them
at
least
.
One
of
my
friends
,
Captain
Paul
Bos
of
Havre
,
has
often
affirmed
that
he
met
one
of
these
monsters
of
colossal
dimensions
in
the
Indian
seas
.
