I don't know if Conseil was busy with their classification, but as for me, I looked at their silver bellies, their fearsome mouths bristling with teeth, from a viewpoint less than scientific-- more as a victim than as a professor of natural history.
Je ne sais si Conseil s'occupait à les classer, mais pour mon compte, j'observais leur ventre argenté, leur gueule formidable, hérissée de dents, à un point de vue peu scientifique, et plutôt en victime qu'en naturaliste.