Even so, these Atlantic fish were not noticeably different from those we had observed earlier. There were rays of gigantic size, five meters long and with muscles so powerful they could leap above the waves, sharks of various species including a fifteen-foot glaucous shark with sharp triangular teeth and so transparent it was almost invisible amid the waters, brown lantern sharks, prism-shaped humantin sharks armored with protuberant hides, sturgeons resembling their relatives in the Mediterranean, trumpet-snouted pipefish a foot and a half long, yellowish brown with small gray fins and no teeth or tongue, unreeling like slim, supple snakes.
Over het algemeen verschilden die visschen van den Atlantischen Oceaan weinig van die wij reeds gezien hadden. Het waren roggen van reusachtige gedaante, vijf meter lang, en zoo sterk, dat zij boven water konden uitspringen; haaien van verschillende soort, onder anderen een van vijf meter lang met driehoekige, scherpe tanden; steuren, zeepalingen en andere visschen.