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MERMAN ON EXHIBITION AT THE GATOR FARM AND MARINE MUSEUM,
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, ARK.
MERMAN
A member of the family of Nereids that inhabited the China Sea many centuries ago. This specimen having
been captured in the Gulf of Tonquin, a tributary of the China Sea, off the coast of Quihoy, about five hundred
miles from Hong Kong. It belongs to the species of Herbivorous Cetacea, one of the rarest inhabitants of the
Sea. Herbivorous Cetacea, occasionally wandered into the more Northern Seas, and invariably caused great
excitement among the seamen. In the waters of the Manaar, they were quite frequently seen by Arab and Greek
seamen years ago, but they are now almost an extinct type of animal life. This specimen was purchased from
the National Museum of China, through the firm of Fook Woh & Co., Importers, San Francisco, Calif., and it is
said there are but few others, they being in the large Museums of Europe.
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PUBLISHED BY F. C. BOVING, HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, ARK.
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