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The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· 25d

From Project Gutenberg: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll Get it at: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48795

Book cover of Lewis Carroll's 'Sylvie and Bruno Concluded'

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· 29d

The inside of Bodley’s Belfry contains a wooden structure which (according to C.L. Dodgson) inspired the design of bathing-machines made by two builders at Ramsgate (snrk.de/page_the-new...).

In 1872, the Christ Church College Cathedral belfry showed damages which made it necessary to rehouse its bells elsewhere. Driven by Dean Henry George Liddel, the New Belfry project started in 1872. The new bell tower was to be placed at the top right corner of Tom Quad, above the staircase to the dining hall. Alas, money run out and a very simple big wooden cube served as the new temporary belfry. It was so simple that C.L. Dodgson associated it with, among other shapes, a new design pattern for bonnet-boxes and bathing-machines. Later that economy belfry shyly went into hiding behind the walls of George Frederick Bodley’s belfry built from 1876 to 1879. Inside the belfry the wooden structure still can be seen.

An excerpt from Dodgson’s Oxford squib The New Belfry of Christ Church where “Bathing-machines” are mentioned:
«§ 7. On the impetus given to Art in England by the new Belfry, Ch. Ch.
The idea has spread far and wide, and is rapidly pervading all branches of manufacture. Already an enterprising maker of bonnet-boxes is advertising ‘the Belfry pattern’: two builders of bathing-machines at Ramsgate have followed his example: one of the great London houses is supplying ‘bar-soap’ cut in the same striking and symmetrical form: and we are credibly informed that Borwick’s Baking Powder and Thorley’s Food for Cattle are now sold in no other shape.»

Source: https://snrk.de/page_the-new-belfry/

George Frederick Bodley’s belfry built from 1876 to 1879

See also: https://snrk.de/page_the-new-belfry/

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 14

Douglas Adams knew Lewis Carroll's writings. Let's assume, that Adams had a random generator in his brain which generated the 42. Latest after that happened, he knew that readers of Carroll's works will discuss whether his 42 is a nod to Carroll. Screenshot from snrk.de/douglas-adam...

From https://snrk.de/douglas-adams-and-lewis-carroll/ :

By Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams (quoted in http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&as_umsgid=adamsd.1102700746A@news.cerf.net), 1993:

It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do.’ I typed it out. End of story.

That said (by the author himself!), did Adams know after the number 42 popped up in his head that Lewis Carroll used that number in his Alice books and in The Hunting of the Snark? Might he have enjoyed the thought, that some readers would interpret the 42 as a nod to Carroll?

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 14

According Google's AI, "boots" is not a portmanteau made from "bonnets"+"hoods". According to the same AI, "Rilchiam" is not a portmanteau either. Lewis Carroll made it from "Richard"+"William". As for deciding whether "boots" can be a portmanteau, my reference is Lewis Carroll, not any AI.

Question: I can build the word "Rilchiam" from letters contained in "Richard" and "William". Is then "Rilchiam" a portmanteau?

Answer (Google AI, 2026-07-14): No, "Rilchiam" is not a portmanteau. Why it is not a portmanteau
※ No blended meaning: A portmanteau must combine both the sounds and the meanings of two words (like motel from motor and hotel).
※ Just an anagram: "Rilchiam" is simply an anagram made from a pool of letters. It does not carry a hybrid definition.
※ No semantic value: The new word has no recognized meaning of its own.
Key requirements for a portmanteau
※ Morphological blending: It splices identifiable segments of words together, usually the start of one and the end of another (e.g., smoke + fog = smog).
※ Semantic blending: The new word represents a combination of the two original concepts (e.g., breakfast + lunch = brunch).

Q: I can build the word "boots" from letters contained in "bonnets" and "hoods". Is then "boots" a portmanteau?

A (Google AI, 2026-07-14): No, "boots" is not a portmanteau.A portmanteau is a linguistic blend where the parts and meanings of two distinct words are fused together to create a new word with a combined meaning (like "smog" from smoke and fog, or "brunch" from breakfast and lunch). Simply being able to spell a word using an anagram or a combination of letters from other words does not make it a portmanteau. Why "Boots" Is Not a Portmanteau
※ No Semantic Blend: "Boots" does not combine the meanings of "bonnets" and "hoods".
※ Accidental Spelling: The fact that the letters b, o, o, t, s exist across those two words is a purely mechanical coincidence.
※ Independent Origin: "Boots" is an old, distinct word with its own separate etymology.

https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#portmanteau (from the preface of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy "The Hunting of the Snark"):

«This also seems a fitting occasion to notice the other hard words in that poem. Humpty-Dumpty’s theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.

For instance, take the two words “fuming” and “furious.” Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards “fuming,” you will say “fuming-furious;” if they turn, by even a hair’s breadth, towards “furious,” you will say “furious-fuming;” but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say “frumious.”

Supposing that, when Pistol uttered the well-known words—

“Under which king, Bezonian? Speak or die!”

Justice Shallow had felt certain that it was either William or Richard, but had not been able to settle which, so that he could not possibly say either name before the other, can it be doubted that, rather than die, he would have gasped out “Rilchiam!”»

$ an -w -m 5 "bonnets hoods" | grep "^b" | grep -v "'" | sort
bends
bents
besot
besots
bests
bodes
bonds
boned
bones
bonnet
bonnets
booed
boons
boost
boosted
boosts
booted
booth
booths
boots
bossed

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 14

The author, Mae Losasso, thinks that "The Hunting of the Snark" probably has been written in response to his godson’s death from tuberculosis at the age of 22. But this just is one of many often repeated assumptions. Brits, do you know your Snark?

https://snrk.de/starry-map/

John Tufail’s “The Illuminated Snark” (p. 15) lead me to this comparison. In 2004 he interpreted the starry night sky in Henry Holiday’s front cover illustration to Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (1876) as a map, where the white clouds represented land with rivers. I liked the suggestion, but did not find any real-world map to which Holiday might have alluded. Holiday engraved that illustration himself.

I discovered John Tufail’s paper in 2009. Only today, after 15 years, I got the idea to compress and flip a large segment of a map of the British isles vertically. That’s my “slowness in taking a jest”. You see the result. Sadly, I can’t tell John that anymore. I appreciated his guidance a lot. The white clouds weren’t the land, but as for a map having been hidden in the illustration, John was right.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 14

Some lines and an illustration from 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876) by Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday, snrk.de/snarkhunt

001 “Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,
002 As he landed his crew with care;
003 Supporting each man on the top of the tide
004 By a finger entwined in his hair.

005 “Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
006 That alone should encourage the crew.
007 Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
008 What I tell you three times is true.”

113 Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
114 A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
115 That frequently happens in tropical climes,
116 When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.”

117 But the principal failing occurred in the sailing,
118 And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
119 Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
120 That the ship would not travel due West!

105 This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out
106 That the Captain they trusted so well
107 Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
108 And that was to tingle his bell.

Source: Some lines and an illustration from 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876) by Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday, https://snrk.de/snarkhunt

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 11

Source: https://snrk.de/page_sphinx/ and https://snrk.de/the-bakers-uncle-yodas-relative-is/

There is no place for "The Hunting of the Snark" in Stuart Freeborn’s Yoda creation story (1979). But I assume that he knew Henry Holiday’s illustration to the chapter The Baker’s Tale in Carroll’s tragicomedy. Or Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas, the screenwriters of the Return of the Jedi (1983), got the idea to allude to the Snark. Or they just added one more variant of the many scenes to their movie, where a dying old man at the end of his life passes important knowledge to a young man. Last not least, the similarities just could be incidental.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 11

BBC Radio 4 (like The Guardian) missed the 150th anniversary "The Hunting of the Snark". Macmillan's official publishing date of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy was April 1st, 1876. Why didn't BBC rebroadcast their Snark radio drama?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Radio4/comments/1ryhy2e/bbc_radio_play_the_hunting_of_the_snark_and_the/

BBC Radio Play "The Hunting of the Snark" and the 150th anniversary of Carroll's Snark tragicomedy
r/Radio4 - BBC Radio Play "The Hunting of the Snark" and the 150th anniversary of Carroll's Snark tragicomedy

BBC Radio 4 already missed all 150th anniversaries of "The Hunting of the Snark". The tragicomedy was officially published on April 1st, 1876.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 7

There is an ambiguity in "The Hunting of the Snark": the "Boots" and the "maker of Bonnets and Hoods" are either one person or two persons. One response to my assumption was: "I can't comprehend why anyone would believe that Carroll was intentionally having fun with us." See also: snrk.de?s=9.5

2026-07-07

Good morning, ....,

I don't think that Carroll was intentionally having fun with us in a malicious way. In contrary, Carroll's puzzles enrich the life of his readers.

"It is possible that the author was half-consciously laying a trap, so readily did he take to the inventing of puzzles and things enigmatic; but to those who knew the man, or who have divined him correctly through his writings, the explanation is fairly simple.
Mr.Dodgson had a mathematical, a logical, and a philosophical mind; and when these qualities are united to a love of the grotesque, the resultant fancies are sure to have a quite peculiar charm, a charm so much the greater because its source is subtle and eludes all attempts to grasp it."
Henry Holiday, 1898-01-29, "The Snark's Significance"
https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HenryHoliday_TheSnarksSignificance__searchable.pdf

Rather than using ambiguity to maliciously annoy his readers, Carroll plays with ambiguity to provide them with rich intellectual stimulation where words and sentences hold multiple meanings. That's more than just clever. "They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care, They pursued it with forks and hope" is a mixing up of two meanings of the word "with". As if this was not enough, Henry Holiday added a third meaning by personifying Hope and Care. Carroll liked that. I am not making this up; the example is described in Holiday's "The Snark's Significance".

Best regards from Munich,
Goetz

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See also: https://snrk.de/?s=9.5

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 6

Example by Lewis Carroll: Richard & William ➜ Rilchiam. Making portmanteaus from just two words is fine. snrk.de/snarkhunt/#p... (From the preface of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy "The Hunting of the Snark)

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 5

Father Time Image source: snrk.de/time/

The bell tingling Father Time

Image source: https://snrk.de/time/

The image on the lower right side is an allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610, by an unknown painter) of Queen Elizabeth I at old age together with the allegories of Death and of Father Time.

The image on the upper right side is a detail from that painting. It shows the head of Father Time in mirror view.

The image on the left side is a depiction of the Bellman from Henry Holiday’s front cover illustration (inset) to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876).

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 5

There is more than one pictorial allusion in most of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". Image source: snrk.de/page_elizabe...

Image source: https://snrk.de/page_elizabeth-i/

[top left]: Henry Holiday’s illustration (1876) to the front cover of Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark
(From Alices Adventures in Wonderland: «It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other[.]» See https://snrk.de/Gutenberg/Alices_Adventures_in_Wonderland.htm#gloves")
[top right]: A grey shaded reproduction of the "Ditchley Portrait" (a gift from Sir Henry Lee to Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1592) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.

[bottom left]: Henry Holiday’s back cover illustration (1876) to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark".
[bottom right]: Rearranged allegorical English School painting (by an unknown artist, ca. 1610) of Queen Elizabeth I at old age with allegory of Death and Father Time.
(EAN: 4050356835081. Location of original painting: Corsham Court, Wiltshire, England, UK)

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jul 4

snrk.de/page_the-bro...

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jun 26

It's worth visiting this event as another contribution to the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Hunting of the Snark" in 1876. (Regrettably I can't join. It's a bit too far away from Munich.) #oxford #AliceDay #LewisCarroll #TheHuntingOfTheSnark

From https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/jul/alices-day-talks

=== Lewis Carroll, Darwin, and The Hunting of the Snark ===

Stephen Thetford, Lewis Carroll Society | 12.15 – 12.55
Starting with a copy of The Annotated Snark in 1974, the speaker has spent years discovering the historical and scientific background to Lewis Carroll's wonderful 'nonsense' poem. The motley crew going on a Snark hunt mimic the Pickwickian comic gentlemen of Dickens, sailing on a quest that parodies Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle. Carroll's illustrator, Henry Holiday, was an experienced science artist who could caricature Victorian explorations such as the survey of the world's oceans by HMS Challenger. Together they created a masterpiece.
The Hunting of the Snark: a 2023 film by Simon DaVison

13.45 – 15.30 | Film duration 90 minutes, rated PG
‘The Hunting of the Snark’ is a feature film based on Lewis Carroll’s follow-up to the Alice books. Set on a tropical island, it is a brilliant, wonderland mix of nonsense, twisted logic and surreal adventure. It also has at its core a powerful and emotional quest – the human search for meaning and an understanding of the universe. What is the Snark? Why is it always so elusive? The film stars Ramon Tikaram (‘Kaos’, ‘Game of Thrones’) and Corinne Furman (‘Fisherman's Friends’).
Film screening includes introduction and Q&A with the director, Simon DaVison.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jun 21

I am not sure whether all of these eight words in "The Hunting of the Snark" and Carroll's earlier writings are portmanteaus. But "Boots" is one of the possible portmanteaus of "Bonnets" and "Hoods". ➜ @finger-in-his-hair.bsky.social

Lewis Carroll’s 1876 nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark" features eight specific portmanteau words imported directly from his earlier masterpiece "Jabberwocky" (found in Through the Looking-Glass). These playfully combined terms help define the surreal, whimsical world of the Snark-hunting crew.The eight portmanteau words Carroll carried over are:
※ Bandersnatch: A swift, fiercely aggressive creature known for its long neck and snapping jaws.
※ Beamish: A blend of "beaming" and "beautiful," meant to describe something radiantly happy or bright.
※ Frumious: A famous combination of "furious" and "fuming," describing a state of intense anger.
※ Galumphing: A portmanteau of "galloping" and "triumphing," used to describe a march or gait full of victorious, clumping energy.
※ Jubjub: A desperate-sounding, bird-like creature described as "desperate" to live.
※ Mimsiest: The superlative form of "mimsy," which Humpty Dumpty famously explained is a combination of "miserable" and "flimsy."
※ Outgrabe: A portmanteau-like action that Carroll described as something between bellowing, whistling, and sneezing.
※ Uffish: An adjective coined to describe a state of being gruff, sullen, or in a decidedly bad, moody temper.

Source: Google AI, 2026-06-21

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jun 21

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Screenshot source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.thelanesarmoury.co.uk/shop.php?code=26256

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«Rare Ist Edition Of 'The Hunting of the Snark', Publication Date 29 March 1876, Subtitled An Agony, in Eight Fits By Lewis Carroll. Ist Impression. With * Supposed Error; 'Baker' instead Of 'Butcher' Page 83 Line 6.
[...]
First Edition. First Impression, with "Baker" instead of "Butcher" on p.83, line 6.
[...]
*Please note, although it is often recorded that ‘Baker for Butcher’ is a 1st Edition first impression printing error, it is supposedly a myth, and there are no actual copies that do have Butcher.
This is yet another example of the numerous myths and legends that seem to surround this famed poem. Maybe it should be re-titled ‘The Hunting Of The Myth’ as it’s easier to find the myths than the likely true meaning of Dodgson’s iconic work.»

Arghhhhh!

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jun 21

There has never been a copy of The Snark with “Butcher” on page 83! snrk.de/baker-for-bu...

https://web.archive.org/web/20260621080343/https://www.thelanesarmoury.co.uk/shop.php?code=26256

«Rare Ist Edition Of 'The Hunting of the Snark', Publication Date 29 March 1876, Subtitled An Agony, in Eight Fits By Lewis Carroll. Ist Impression With Error; 'Baker' instead Of 'Butcher' Page 83 Line 6

The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight Fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem.
Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
First Edition. First Impression, with "Baker" instead of "Butcher" on p.83, line 6. [...] Code 26256 --- 845.00 GBP»

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https://snrk.de/baker-for-butcher-on-p-83/

«Baker for Butcher on p. 83

by Alan Tannenbaum
The Snarkologist, Vol. 1, Fit 7, March 2024, p. 15~16, https://snarkology.net/journal/v1f7/

If you search for first editions of The Snark, you will invariably find booksellers using the phrase “Baker for Butcher on p. 83” as “proof” that their copy for sale is a rare first printing of the first edition. But …

There has never been a copy of The Snark with “Butcher” on page 83.

[snrk.de comment: There has never been a copy of The Snark with “Banker” on page 83 either.] This myth has been perpetuated throughout the years, and this article is not the first one to mention it. If you see the above phrase, gently “help” the seller by forwarding this article.»

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jun 18

「snark」という言葉は、すでに16世紀に使われていました

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1584-1585

Snark, n.
※ [? Cf. Jam. snark (1882, Ayr.), mod. Eng. snark (once, 1901) to grumble, fret, later Sc. dial. and mod. Eng. snark, snork to snore.]
※ A pejorative term the precise sense of which is unclear. —a1585 Polwart Flyt. 782 (T).
Sillie snark, lene raik, rak ane aik with the hinging

https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/snark

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jun 17

※ 32pages.ca/2011/02/24/g... ※ 50watts.com/Snark-Strang... ※ 50watts.com/Illustrating...

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· Jun 15

Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", where since 150 years the readers can decide whether the hunting party consists of nine (as depicted by the illustrator Henry Holiday) or ten (if the 'Boots' and the 'maker of Bonnets and Hoods' are two different characters) Snark hunters.

Two illustrations by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876)

Details: https://snrk.de/boots-bonnetmaker/

Let us take all the nine crew members in order of their introduction in Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's tragicomedy:
(1) The Bellman, their captain.
(2) The Boots, a maker of Bonnets and Hoods. (A correct non-sequential interlaced portmanteau can be built from Bonnets and Hoods. Try under Linux: an -w 'Bonnets and Hoods' | grep boo)
(3) The Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes, but repeatedly complained about the Beaver’s evil lace-making.
(4) The Broker, to value their goods.
(5) The Billiard-marker, whose skill was immense, might perhaps have won more than his share. From John Tufail I learned that in Henry Holiday’s illustration the Billiard-marker is preparing a cheat.
(6) The Banker, engaged at enormous expense, had the whole of their cash in his care.
(7) The Beaver, that paced on the deck or would sit making lace in the bow and had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck, though none of the sailors knew how.
(8) The Baker, also addressed by “Fry me!”, “Fritter my wig!”, “Candle-ends” as well as “Toasted-cheese”, and known for joking with hyenas and walking paw-in-paw with a bear.
(9) The Butcher, who only could kill Beavers, but later became best friend with the lace-making animal.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 18

I recommend Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (snrk.de/snarkhunt). Image source: snrk.de/starry-map/.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 15

➜ @tngmorris.bsky.social, because of x.com/thomasngmorr... (sorry for the reference to that toXic site). Good to see you on Bluesky. Because of your post I wrote snrk.de/carrolls-com... (and other entries about bathing-machines) in my Snark blog.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 12

That 'bonkers' quote by Linda Woolverton is nice. It's from her screenplay for the 2010 Alice movie. Lewis Carroll didn't know that 20th century word.

Linda Woolverton

Image source: https://www.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/alumni/made-in-the-csu/fullerton/Pages/linda-c-woolverton.aspx (Oct. 2024)

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 12

I still run my Snark blog, but most of the time it is in maintenance mode. I thought that 4000 attacks per day indicate that snrk.de is important. But now AIs run those attacks.

Screenshot of https://snrk.de (2026-05-12)

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 11

Talking about Brexit; I liked "May government’s Brexit aims were never achievable – we’ve been hunting a fantastical beast all along" (2018-11-10, web.archive.org/web/20181116...) by Michael Keating. I also like that you copied my assemblage from snrk.de/snarkhunt and snrk.de/page_snark-a....

Screenshot from https://web.archive.org/web/20181116181356/http://theconversation.com/may-governments-brexit-aims-were-never-achievable-weve-been-hunting-a-fantastical-beast-all-along-107067, 2018-11-10

https://snrk.de/page_snark-assemblage/

In 2012, I assembled two scans from original 19th century sources:

The print The Beagle Laid Ashore is based on a drawing (1834-04-16) by Conrad Martens. The etching was published in Francis Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , p. 160, 1888. Conrad Martens’ drawing has been engraved by T. Landseer and published in the year 1838 by H. Colburn in The Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle. (Image date: 1834-04-16. Location: Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz river, 50.1125°S and 68.3917°W. That is the position calculated by Captain Robert FitzRoy (who had no GPS). The error was small. The drawing shows that the site must have been a river bank – 50.13°S, 68.39°W? – near the calculated position.)
The Banker “supported” by the Bellman and the Beaver carrying a microscope depicted in illustrations by H. Holiday to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, 1876

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 8

Britain is snarked.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 6

snrk.de/monumental-s...

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 6

Today, Lewis Carroll could have found a portmanteau (English words with >4 letters, without apostrophes, and starting with "b" as a requirement for names in "The Hunting of the Snark") for "Bonnets"+"Hoods" using Linux.

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 4

I think there is some Snark in Claudi Mans' blog post. More: snrk.de/monumental-s...

The Hunting of the Snark@snarkhunt· May 4

#OTD (May 4th) is 'Star Wars' day. On the right side is an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt/#3.10).