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Foreign News
December 22, 1795
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A man drowned while swimming in the River Gde near Moivane, County Kerry, Ireland, on Thursday, September 6, killed by a giant eel that wrapped around his neck and bit his throat; the eel was 5.5 feet long and weighed 56 pounds.
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LONDON, Sept. 21.
On Thursday the 6th inst. the following melancholy accident is said to have happened near Moivane, in the county of Kerry, Ireland; two men having gone into the river Gde to swim, one of them suddenly disappeared; his companion, missing him, alarmed the people in the neighbourhood, & after a diligent search, the body was found with a monstrous eel wound many folds about his neck, and biting at his throat! So exceedingly fierce and voracious was this dreadful animal, that before it could be separated from the neck of the unfortunate man, its head was obliged to be severed from its body. Its length was five feet and half, and weighed 56 lb.
De Foe seems, in the following two lines in his Jure Divino, to have parodied the old proverb of God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
Our Governments from Heaven might first appear,
But Governors come from, the Lord knows where.
On Thursday the 6th inst. the following melancholy accident is said to have happened near Moivane, in the county of Kerry, Ireland; two men having gone into the river Gde to swim, one of them suddenly disappeared; his companion, missing him, alarmed the people in the neighbourhood, & after a diligent search, the body was found with a monstrous eel wound many folds about his neck, and biting at his throat! So exceedingly fierce and voracious was this dreadful animal, that before it could be separated from the neck of the unfortunate man, its head was obliged to be severed from its body. Its length was five feet and half, and weighed 56 lb.
De Foe seems, in the following two lines in his Jure Divino, to have parodied the old proverb of God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
Our Governments from Heaven might first appear,
But Governors come from, the Lord knows where.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
What keywords are associated?
Eel Attack
Swimming Accident
County Kerry
River Gde
Ireland Disaster
Where did it happen?
Moivane, County Of Kerry, Ireland
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Moivane, County Of Kerry, Ireland
Event Date
Thursday The 6th Inst.
Outcome
one man killed by the eel; eel severed and measured five feet and half long, weighed 56 lb.
Event Details
Two men went swimming in the river Gde near Moivane; one disappeared, body found with a monstrous eel wound around his neck and biting his throat; the eel was fierce and had to have its head cut off to remove it.