The Daily Mail of Monday reports, with a graphic illustra-
tion, the strange experience that befell H.M.S. Arrogant' while proceeding from Vigo to Gibraltar. " She was going ahead at full-speed in a calm sea about fifteen miles south of Vigo, when the crew was mustered for the daily service of grog. The sailors were lined up, and the boatswain was measuring out the grog, and had nearly served the last of the men, when all of a sudden a great tremor went through the ship. She shook from stem to stern. The sailors were thrown down in all directions. The firemen tumbled over, and the officers on the bridge staggered. It was thought the ship had struck a sunken rock. The engines were immediately reversed. It was then found that the cause of the disturbance was a great whale, which had been hit squarely in the middle by the
prow of the Arrogant.' It is not stated what became of the whale."
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