Sea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables Explained

part is studded with suckers--some of them larger in size than those on

the eight shorter arms. As the food of these swimmers consists, of course, chiefly of fish, their sucking disks are curiously modified for the better retention of a slippery captive. A horny ring with a sharply serrated edge is imbedded in the outer circumference of each of them, and when a vacuum is formed, the...