loggerhead-turtles

Updated: August 1, 2026

Each puncheon was of a deep-green color, so covered with minute barnacles and shell-fish, and streaming with sea-weed, that it needed long searching to find out their bung-holes; they looked like venerable old loggerhead-turtles. How long they had been tossing about, and making voyages for the benefit of the flavour of their contents, no one could tell.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War