22/23 Though no coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but his back, which rises in a long sharp ridge. I know little more of him, nor does anybody else. (SULPHUR-BOTTOM) .-- Another retiring gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings. He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance. |