Now he stood and told that no less a man than Aristotle had recorded such a happening as this.

Certain ships of Gades--that is our Cadiz--driven by a great wind far into River-Ocean, met these weeds or others like them, distant parents of these.

They were like floating islands forever changing shape, and those old ships sailed among them for a while.

They thought they must have broken from sea floor and risen to surface, and currents brought other masses from land.

Tunny fish were caught among them.
And that very moment, as the endless possibilities of things would have it, one, leaning on the rail, cried out that there were tunnies.