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Waterspouts

Nature volume 111, pages 82–83 (1923)Cite this article

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I STOOD watching the effects of an ordinary small whirlwind when a Swahili volunteered the information that similar phenomena were at times to be seen over the sea, but that, in those cases, what one saw was God (Muungu) drawing a whale (nyamgum) aloft.

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    H. E. HORNBY

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HORNBY, H. Waterspouts. Nature 111, 82–83 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111082d0

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