Seaweed or grass or herbage of some sort was afloat about us.

Far as the eye might reach it was like a drowned meadow, vari-colored, awash.

All that day we watched it.

It came toward us from the west; we ran through it from the east.

Now it thinned away; now it thickened until it seemed that the sea was strewn with rushes like a castle floor.