We saw other sights; we met with galleys and saw many ships about the sea.

Some were moved by sails only; these were merchant ships, but they had only square sails, and could not sail in any other way than before the wind.

Once or twice I caught glimpses of vast shadowy objects in the air.

I was startled and terrified; for, great as were the wonders of this strange region, I had not yet suspected that the air itself might have denizens as tremendous as the land or the sea.

Yet so it was, and afterward during the voyage I saw them often.