Finally, adorned with emerald ribbons and dressed in velvet and silk, golden angelfish passed before our eyes like courtiers in the paintings of Veronese; spurred gilthead stole by with their swift thoracic fins; thread herring fifteen inches long were wrapped in their phosphorescent glimmers; gray mullet thrashed the sea with their big fleshy tails; red salmon seemed to mow the waves with their slicing pectorals; and silver moonfish, worthy of their name, rose on the horizon of the waters like the whitish reflections of many moons.
Los múgiles batían el mar con sus gruesas colas carnosas. Rojos corégonos parecían segar las olas con su afilada aleta pectoral y peces luna plateados dignos de su nombre se levantaban sobre el agua como otras tantas lunas con reflejos blancos.