For a long time I have renounced the food of the earth, and I am never ill now.

My crew, who are healthy, are fed on the same food." "So," said I, "all these eatables are the produce of the sea ?" "Yes, Professor, the sea supplies all my wants.

Sometimes I cast my nets in tow, and I draw them in ready to break.

Sometimes I hunt in the midst of this element, which appears to be inaccessible to man, and quarry the game which dwells in my submarine forests.

My flocks, like those of Neptune's old shepherds, graze fearlessly in the immense prairies of the ocean.