Among the articulates there were annelid worms one and a half meters long, furnished with a pink proboscis, equipped with 1,700 organs of locomotion, snaking through the waters, and as they went, throwing off every gleam in the solar spectrum.
C'étaient, parmi les articulés, des annélides longs d'un mètre et demi, armés d'une trompe rose et pourvus de dix-sept cents organes locomoteurs, qui serpentaient sous les eaux et jetaient en passant toutes les lueurs du spectre solaire.