Published on: 2025-08-11 22:06:35
For Lee, the accounts of sailors — “Jolly Jack Tars” — can be explained by the natural superstition he assumes sailors possess: “To the best of his belief, he has told the truth. He has seen some living being which looked wonderfully human, and his imagination, aided by an inherited superstition, has supplied the rest.” The imagination of one particular sailor quoted by Lee catches the eye of the twenty-first century reader, however; tucked away on page 74 of Sea Monsters Unmasked, to aid the de
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