The sea bottom was rich with crawling and swimming
and growing things. The brown algae waved in the
gentle currents and the green eel grass swayed and little
sea horses clung to its stems. Spotted botete, the poison
fish, lay on the bottom in the eel-grass beds, and the
bright-coloured swimming crabs scampered over them.
On the beach the hungry dogs and the hungry pigs of the
town searched endlessly for any dead fish or sea bird
that may have floated in on a rising tide.
from The Pearl by John Steinbeck
