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Updated: June 29, 2025
But already, without a word, brown Feliu has stripped for the struggle; another second, and he is shooting through the surf, head and hands tunnelling the foam hills.... One two three lines passed! four! that is where they first begin to crumble white from the summit, five! that he can ride fearlessly! ... Then swiftly, easily, he advances, with a long, powerful breast-stroke, keeping his bearded head well up to watch for drift, seeming to slide with a swing from swell to swell, ascending, sinking, alternately presenting breast or shoulder to the wave; always diminishing more and more to the eyes of Mateo and Miguel, till he becomes a moving speck, occasionally hard to follow through the confusion of heaping waters ... You are not afraid of the sharks, Feliu! no: they are afraid of you; right and left they slunk away from your coming that morning you swam for life in West-Indian waters, with your knife in your teeth, while the balls of the Cuban coast-guard were purring all around you.
The land in sight grew no plainer, although each breast-stroke the pleasure of a while agone, but oh! such a tax now must have lessened the distance. Even to that excursion there came an hour of accomplishment and repose; but to this, of pen over paper, I cannot flatter myself that the hour is yet. I have to abandon the work incomplete.
"You won't be here all your life, my son," he said. "You're a rising man, remember. There's no sense in grizzling, anyhow, and you're getting round-shouldered. Why don't you do some gymnastics? You've got a swimming bath. Go and do a quarter of a mile breast-stroke every day. Jupiter! What wouldn't I give to" He broke off abruptly. "Well, I'm not going to cry for the moon either.
Then, striking out with a good strong breast-stroke, which is worth all your fancy side business in rough water, I made towards him; although, having to go against the set of the sea, I found it much harder work than merely keeping myself afloat, which was all that I had previously tried to do, without actually swimming.
Another method of using the hands is the reverse of the breast-stroke movement; in other words, the breast stroke movement is done backward. Begin with the arms out straight in front, the palms together, and then draw the arms backward until the wrists touch the chest.
passed the fourth wave, gained deep water, and thrust out to sea with a steady breast-stroke, his eyes all the while on the great embracing flood which, stretch as it might from here to Europe, for the moment he commanded. Manasseh watched him from the beach.
He pointed to two tiny figures, barely visible in the distance. "Wow! They're sure not wasting any time!" Mel muttered. "Let's step on it, Bud! They'll be ashore in a minute!" A darting school of sea bass screened the figures briefly from view. As the fish flickered past, Mel and Bud saw the frogmen breast-stroke up toward the surface and break water. Bud and Mel followed.
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