Next morning the weather was fair but a flat calm. The dark mass lay ahead, much nearer and larger, but still very dim, so that some thought it was still a long way off and others thought they were running into a mist.
第二天早晨，天氣很好，只是海面上風平浪靜。那座黑乎乎的龐然大物就橫亙在他們前面，雖然近得多，大得多，不過還是非常模糊，有些人看了還以為它還離得老遠呢，另一些人則以為他們闖進一團迷霧中了。