The sun was hot now and the old man felt it on the back of his neck and felt the sweat trickle down his back as he rowed.
The turtles saw them, approached them from the front , then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all.
Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred.
They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish.