When examined closely, it is found to have an oblong narrow serrated leaf of a pale yellow colour, resembling somewhat in form a cauliflower stripped of its leaves, the nodules being composed of a vast number of small branches, about half an inch long, which shoot out from each other at a sharp angle, and hence multiply continually towards the outer circumference of the plant, each extreme point producing a round seed-vessel like a berry.

A great number of little crabs, barnacles, and small shell-fish are generally found attached to the weed, as Captain Miles mentioned just now when he said we might find something to eat amidst the branches of it in an emergency.

It is wonderful sometimes to see with what regularity the weed is arranged across the ocean when the wind blows.
It looks then exactly like a meadow does after it has been fresh mown and the grass is left upon it in long swathes by the scythe at equal distances apart." "There, Master Tom," put in Captain Miles here, "I think you know now all that Mr Marline can tell you about the Sargasso Sea and the weed to be found there.

It's about time we all turned in now for the night, for the sun has set and it will soon be dark.

Have all you men," he called out aloud, "lashed yourselves securely ?" "Aye, aye, sir," they answered one by one, Moggridge coming last.
"Then good night, and good cheer, my lads!" he cried.