If you look at the smooth riband of water out there, you will perceive a passage through the reef.

A great place for sharks, Miss Deane, but no place for bathers." "Good gracious! I had forgotten the sharks.

I suppose they must live, horrid as they are, but I don't want them to dine on me." The mention of such disagreeable adjuncts to life on the island no longer terrified her.

Thus do English new-comers to India pass the first three months' residence in the country in momentary terror of snakes, and the remaining thirty years in complete forgetfulness of them.
They passed on.

Whilst traversing the coral-strewn south beach, with its patches of white soft sand baking in the direct rays of the sun, Jenks perceived traces of the turtle which swarmed in the neighboring sea.
"Delicious eggs and turtle soup!" he announced when Iris asked him why he was so intently studying certain marks on the sand, caused by the great sea-tortoise during their nocturnal visits to the breeding-ground.
"If they are green turtle," he continued, "we are in the lap of luxury.
They lard the alderman and inspire the poet.