was engaged in a life struggle, for if he relaxed his hold the creature would drag him under the water and drown him.     The octopus emitted a blackish fluid that colored the water in the vicinity of the struggling pair. But the native struggled on. He kept biting savagely at the eyes of the octopus. Once he got the right eye firmly gripped, but a sudden dive under water choked him into letting go his hold.     The fight lasted fully fifteen minutes. First one eye of the octupus was torn away by the sailor and dually the other. With the loss of the second eye the octopus gave up the fight. The creature measured fifteen feet across. Its tentacles were as large as a man’s wrist. Watts was badly bruised and his arms and body flayed. From— Lewiston Evening Teller. (Lewiston, Idaho), 28 April 1904. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.