So they left the poor octopus weeping and wiping his watery eyes with his handkerchief and swam on their way.

"I'm not a bit sorry for him," remarked the child, "for his legs remind me of serpents." "So they do me," agreed Cap'n Bill.
"But the octopi are not very bad," said the Princess, "and we get along with them much better than we do with their cousins, the sea devils." "Oh.

Are the sea devils their cousins ?" asked Trot.
"Yes, and they are the only creatures of the ocean which we greatly fear," replied Aquareine.

"I hope we shall meet none today, for we are going near to the dismal caverns where they live." "What are the sea devils like, ma'am ?" inquired Cap'n Bill a little uneasily.
"Something like the octopus you just saw, only much larger and of a bright scarlet color, striped with black," answered the Queen.

"They are very fierce and terrible creatures and nearly as much dreaded by the inhabitants of the ocean as is Zog, and nearly as powerful as King Anko himself." "Zog! Who is Zog ?" questioned the girl.