In the year 1866 a new boat came back from sea every week with the same story A giant whale a hundred metres long came near our boat the men said the story was in the newspapers and a lot of people talked about it
It wasn't a whale scientists said A big blue whale is only twenty-seven metres long Perhaps it was a coral reef
But a coral reef can't send water fifty metres into the air the seamen answered This animal can
It went near one boat in Australian waters Three days later it was seven hundred leagues away in the Pacific
Whales can't swim seven hundred leagues in three days the scientists said Perhaps it's a submarine
But only a county with a lot of money can build a submarine and the same answer came back from every country we haven't got a submarine
one day a British boat the Scotia was in the Atlantic Suddenly water started to come into the boat The captain looked for the problem There was a big hole in the boat The Scotia is very strong he said I don't understand this hole Is it the work of the giant whale