A BREEZE. 149 



But there were indications of a breeze springing 

 up ; clouds were forming over the land, and drifting 

 to the southward, and "cats' paws" here and there 

 were mffling the silvery glaze of the sea into a deep 

 blue. We got on board, and by the time we had 

 pulled out a couple of hundred yards or so, down 

 came a pleasant breeze, cool and fresh, from the north- 

 west. The willing lads quickly stepped the mast, ran 

 up the main-sail and jib, and, giving her a flowing 

 sheet, put her before it ; while the water began to 

 ripple off under her quarter, with that rustling sound 

 which a boatman loves to hear. 



" Toi S' OTpVUOVTOS oLKovcruv, 



'Icrrov 5' (Ixdnuov ko/Atjs evToade neacbjULrjs 

 '2,Trj(rav deipauTes, Kara 5e nvporovQicriv edrjcrav, 

 '^EKkov 5' IffTia Xevnd evaTpeirroLffi fioevaiy. 

 "ETrpTjcrev 5' dve/xos jjlIctov IcrrloV dix<p\ Se Kv^xa 

 'Xnipt) TTopcpvp^ov fjLeyd\' 'lax^, vtjos lovaris. 

 "HS' eOeiV Kara Kv/xa diairp-qcraovaa Ke\ev6ov." 



Od. p. 423. 



The dredges were quickly down ; and while they 

 were gathering their various contents, I put overboard 

 my Medusa net, to see what the surface might pro- 

 duce on such a sweet summer day. No Medusae were 

 to be obtained, except one or two small specimens of 

 Cydi2^pe pomiformis, a brilliant little sphere of jelly, 

 resembling the clearest glass, rowed along by ciliary 

 paddles, set in eight rows, like the meridians of a 

 globe. But the net came in loaded with tiny active 

 creatures, which I saw, on putting a few of them into 

 a glass phial, to be the young of some Crab in one of 

 the stages of its metamorphosis : not in that earliest 

 state which is called Zoea, but that secondary con- 

 dition known as Megalopa, Many of these minute 



