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1The Scotia had not struck, but she had been struck, and seemingly by something rather sharp and penetrating than blunt.
2The shock had been so slight that no one had been alarmed, had it not been for the shouts of the carpenter's watch, who
3rushed on to the bridge, exclaiming, "We are sinking! we are sinking!" At first the passengers were much frightened, but
4Captain Anderson hastened to reassure them. The danger could not be imminent. The Scotia, divided into seven
5compartments by strong partitions, could brave with impunity any leak. Captain Anderson went down immediately into the
6hold. He found that the sea was pouring into the fifth compartment; and the rapidity of the influx proved that the force
7of the water was considerable. Fortunately this compartment did not hold the boilers, or the fires would have been
8immediately extinguished. Captain Anderson ordered the engines to be stopped at once, and one of the men went down to
9ascertain the extent of the injury. Some minutes afterwards they discovered the existence of a large hole, of two yards
10in diameter, in the ship's bottom. Such a leak could not be stopped; and the Scotia, her paddles half submerged, was
11obliged to continue her course. She was then three hundred miles from Cape Clear, and after three days' delay, which
12caused great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was
13put in dry dock. They could scarcely believe it possible; at two yards and a half below water-mark was a regular rent,
14in the form of an isosceles triangle. The broken place in the iron plates was so perfectly defined that it could not
15have been more neatly done by a punch. It was clear, then, that the instrument producing the perforation was not of a
16common stamp; and after having been driven with prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate 1-3/8 inches thick, had
17withdrawn itself by a retrograde motion truly inexplicable. Such was the last fact, which resulted in exciting once more
18the torrent of public opinion. From this moment all unlucky casualties which could not be otherwise accounted for were
19put down to the monster. Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which
20unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of
21sailing and steam ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two
22hundred! Now, it was the "monster" who, justly or unjustly, was accused of their disappearance, and, thanks to it,
23communication between the different continents became more and more dangerous. The public demanded peremptorily that the
24seas should at any price be relieved from this formidable cetacean.
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