leviathan-backs

Updated: June 16, 2025

A week later sea-bathing had become perilous: colossal breakers were herding in, like moving leviathan-backs, twice the height of a man. Still the gale grew, and the billowing waxed mightier, and faster and faster overhead flew the tatters of torn cloud.

Lafcadio Hearn - Chita: a Memory of Last Island