The sea, with its countless treasures, its myriads of fish, its numberless wrecks, its enormous mammalia, and not only all that nature supplied, but also all that man had lost in its depths, sufficed for every want of the prince and his crew--and thus was his most ardent desire accomplished, never again to hold communication with the earth.
A tenger, a maga végtelen kincseivel, milliárd halával, moszattömegeivel, sargassumtermésével, roppant emlőseivel - s ezenfelül az emberek odavesztett rengeteg aranyával és ékkövével is - bőségesen fedezte a herceg és hívei szükségleteit.