The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-25

acls apd float over the black abysses which
at ones feet.
There are great granite boulders covered
with calcareous substance Others are green,
With wondrous traceries Of vines and flowers
Here are sea weeds incrusted with lime, and
look like vegetation carved Of marble.
The accompanying pictures were taken in
the ocean at night. A special camera fortified
against the pressure of the water was used A
pyrotechnic light was burned IN a bell-shaped
glass filed with compressed oxygen.
To wander in the sea with the camera and
light Is a most interesting trip. One can see.
phases Of life invisible in the dull, ordinary
All is silent. Do you ask if there is lifei In
the fash of light behold The teens with
life. Il is pregnant with energy.
The forests are rife with wild and grotesque
monsters, the flower gardens peopled By strange.
unearthly looking creatures.
The long stretch of muddy bottom Is Gov
cred with mollusks, and there, here, everywhere
YOU can see the awful devilhshes immortalized
by Victor Hugo.
Against the black background Of rock the
devilfsh waves its long white arms Its ovoid
body Is reddish yet scintillant with silver In
the center Of the eight long wriggling arms Is a
mouth, with the beak Of parrot and two ter
rible eyes that burn ike living Goals.
Should one attack deyilfsh, it win fling
its arms against the rock and by its suckers
hold tight. Its eyes viii fash red anger, It's
arms viii become brown spotted, and It VIII ex-
ude a brown fluid, which colors the water. Be-
fore letting go Of the rock 1t VIII let you
wrench its body to pieces.
In the sea are berbivOrous animals, flesh
eating animals and scavengers. Here, beneath
the underground, you viii find sea urchIns-vlo-
let-eolored. curious little creatures. These gas
teroDods. with tall spiral shells on their backs,
crawl slowly around
Here. again. nimble and alert, hermit crabs
iurnp about like monkeys in the weeds, frisking
and playing blithesomely.
sENTINELs GUARD FANTASTIC GROTTOS
In the rocks are innumerable grottos, and at
the doors are terrifying sentinels-sea spiders,
with long, wicked, dangling legs, armed with
pincers Their bodies are covered with splnesl
and they look hungrily for prey:
On t . stones lie cIJtlehsh, ogres Waltln
for prey. Surprising an irro"ent crab shoulS
wander by, out dart two long rope-like arms and
seize the wayfarer; despite Its struggles, 1t Is
carried TO the hawk-like mouth Of the captor
and is tori fercely to shreds.
There are CLANS and g. Holsters that
spend their time smoothing and cleaning tho
shells. Others, again, re simply covered with
parasites.
Perhaps YOU viii pass meadow of low,
living green's Here like sheep, are thousands OF
mollusks feeding. In the deeper thlcket you
NAV witness a battle royal between two OF the
savage fesh-eating fishes They Will fight unit
one perisi.es-
Perhaps you think that fish never sleep. Oh
your journey you may enter dark and qule
glade, and on the sand you win see scores o.
fishes lying fat on their backs. No. they arr
not dead, but merely sleeping.
Ho therel 1t is time to rlseI Dlzzlly W.
scale the watery path, and IN a moment vi
breathe fresh air and the sunlight dazzles on