But we had to keep walking, and we went forward while overhead there scudded schools of Portuguese men-of-war that let their ultramarine tentacles drift in their wakes, medusas whose milky white or dainty pink parasols were festooned with azure tassels and shaded us from the sun's rays, plus jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra that, in the dark, would have strewn our path with phosphorescent glimmers!
Mais il fallait marcher, et nous allions en avant, pendant que voguaient au-dessus de nos têtes des troupes de physalies, laissant leurs tentacules d'outre-mer flotter à la traîne, des méduses dont l'ombrelle opaline ou rose tendre, festonnée d'un liston d'azur, nous abritait des rayons solaires, et des pélagies panopyres, qui, dans l'obscurité, eussent semé notre chemin de lueurs phosphorescentes !