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| 16 | 213 | "If the View more quotes about islands">islands sleep," I said, "how can they breathe?" "Easily," she said. |
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| 16 | 210 | "Shallower water is not always close to shore," she said. |
| 16 | 211 | "In many places there are broad, risen plateaus under the water, sometimes several pasangs in width, plateaus which are often no more than twenty or thirty feet under the surface of the water. |
| 16 | 212 | They make excellent fishing grounds". |
| 16 | 213 | "If the islands sleep," I said, "how can they breathe?" "Easily," she said. |
| 16 | 214 | "They lift their breathing door from the water, expel used air and inhale fresh air, all this done in their sleep". |
| 16 | 215 | "The men told me a living island can go more than a day without breathing," I said. |
| 16 | 216 | "That is true," she said. |