"The night, dark as soot, descended in deep silence on sea and shore. We could not see the water, we only felt its cool touch on our heated bodies. Gradually our eyes became accustomed to the darkness and saw luminous pin-points of starts scattered around us; they fell into the faintly shining water and we, stating in it up to the waist, could clearly visualize the shallow, open tropical sea around us.
The harbour lights lay motionless on the water, like the pale eyes of deepwater fish, which had swum to the surface at midnight to gaze at the stars...”
