And the fishing barks and lightercraft with broad sails and slender masts, stealing across the sky in towof inconspicuous tugs, were coming in, faster and slower, towards thedevouring ogre, who from time to time seemed to have had a surfeit, andspewed out to the open sea another fleet of steamers, brigs, schooners,and three-masted vessels with their tangled mass of rigging.
Et les barques de pêche et lesgrands voiliers aux mâtures légères glissant sur le ciel, traînés pard'imperceptibles remorqueurs, arrivaient tous, vite ou lentement, verscet ogre dévorant, qui de temps en temps, semblait repu, et rejetaitvers la pleine mer une autre flotte de paquebots, de bricks, degoélettes, de trois-mâts chargés de ramures emmêlées.