where there was calm weather. There they met
a dolphin, which is a sort of jumping jack, an ocean rover, that can turn somersaults in the water.
As these have eyes to see with, he must have seen what had happened and should know all about it. They
inquired, but the dolphin had only been thinking of himself and his somersaults, had seen nothing, and
didn't know what to answer, so he kept quiet and looked proud.

Thereupon they turned to the seal who had just ducked down; he was more polite,
although seals eat small fishes, for today he had had his fill. He knew a little more than the dolphin.

"Many a night I have rested on a wet rock and looked far inland, miles away
from here; there live some sneaky creatures who,in their language, are called people; they plot against
us, but often we slip away from them, which I know how to do, and that is what the sea eel has done,
too. He has been in their power, up there on the earth, for a long, long time, and from there they carried
him off on a ship, to bring him across the ocean to a distant land. I saw what trouble they had, but
they could manage him, because he had become weak on the earth. They laid him down in coils and circles;
I heard how he 'ringled' and 'rangled' when they put him down, but still he got away from them. They
held on to him with all their might; many hands held fast, but still he slipped away from