text:  Some days after we were still more fortunate; we had observed the scouts with a white hood over their boat _looking keenly down_ (_vide_ our quotation from Theocritus) into the deep blue sea and watching with all-eyed attention for the apparition of some giant shadow which should pass athwart the abyss and give the signal for a new chase while their comrades were hauling in an immense miscellaneous _take_ of fish the acquisition of the morning