Was it animal or perhaps a submarine? What could i say? I didn't know. Then a wonderful thing happened. The Americans wanted to send a ships, the Abraham Lincoln,after the monster and they asked me, 'Can you come with us?' I was happy to go-and Conseil,my good servant,went with me. When we left New York,thousands of people came and watched us. Captain Farragut of the Abraham Lincoln said,'Two thousand dollars for the first man to see the monster!good luck!'