. Denizens of the deep [microform]. Marine biology; Deep-sea animals; Deep-sea fishes; Biologie marine; Faune des grands fonds; Possions de grands fonds. Turtle Turning the moonbeams like a silver sliield. emerge from the waves. The excitement becomes intense; one feels one's muscles crawling, as it were, so ea^er are we to pounce upon our prey. JSut wc must nut yet The arrivals have fallen to digging and surrounding themselves with a halo of fine sand, and others are coming every few minutes, on the same errand bent â¢At last, when the long stretch of beach is fairly covered with the to
. Denizens of the deep [microform]. Marine biology; Deep-sea animals; Deep-sea fishes; Biologie marine; Faune des grands fonds; Possions de grands fonds. Turtle Turning the moonbeams like a silver sliield. emerge from the waves. The excitement becomes intense; one feels one's muscles crawling, as it were, so ea^er are we to pounce upon our prey. JSut wc must nut yet The arrivals have fallen to digging and surrounding themselves with a halo of fine sand, and others are coming every few minutes, on the same errand bent â¢At last, when the long stretch of beach is fairly covered with the tolling Chdoncs, each in her own pit, labouring to make the receptacle sufficiently deep for all the eggs she has brought, our chief gives the signal, and, like a l)and of brigands, we all rush forth betw. en the Turtle and the sea, and halting one by one at the pit^ strive to turn the Turtle over by a dexterous twisting of the hmd flippers. Sometimes, and that not seldom, we g. t lK,ld of a Turtle that it would take three men to turn over, and, holding on frantically, we are dragged down through the blinding sand to the sea marge where w'e must let go or be drowned. Presently the captured turtle, lying with feebly waving flippers on tieir backs quite helpless, are towed by ropes attached to tliem to our reservoirs or ponds, where they await shipment to London. And from thenceforward, until he c;../ draws his knife across tlieir leathery throats. c I nu" ^''^^'' ^""^ ^"^ ''''''" ^"°'^'' *° ^^t in One point more in connexion with the Turtle before we close this all-too-brief memoir. It is his amazing ^tahty. Most of the deep-sea folk possess this ciuahty of tenacious hold on life in a high degree, but none, as i-jf as 1 know, to nearly the same extent as the Turtle NMthout endorsing any such foolish remark as that hey cannot die until the setting of the sun,' I can nrl '7u JJ''''''' '""" ^'^^' ^^'^ ^^'â ''''"^ o"t of
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