The Octopus

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Excerpt from The Octopus: Or the "Devil-Fish" Of Fiction and of Fact I am indebted to my friend Mr. Thomas Davidson, . &c., , for the beautiful portrait of the Octopus, which forms the frontispiece to this volume, to Mrs. Edward Harris for the drawing of its eggs (fig. To Miss Gertrude Woodward for that of its tongue (fig. 4) and to Messrs. West and Co., and Mr. Charles A. Perrier, for the care they have respectively bestowed on the lithographing and engraving of the illustrations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.