Cavorting around the Nautilus was a school of triggerfish with flat bodies, grainy skins, armed with stings on their dorsal fins, and with four prickly rows of quills quivering on both sides of their tails.
Lapos testű, barkás bőrű, tüskés hátsörényuszonyos íjhalak rajzottak a Nautilus körül, négysoros tüskével meredező farkukat csapdosva.