Such was the region our Nautilus was visiting just then: a genuine prairie, a tightly woven carpet of algae, gulfweed, and bladder wrack so dense and compact a craft's stempost couldn't tear through it without difficulty.
Tal era la región que visitaba el Nautilus en aquel momento. Una verdadera pradera, una tupida alfombra de algas, de fucos, de uvas del trópico, tan espesa, tan compacta que la roda de un navío no podía desgarrarla sin gran esfuerzo.