![]() ![]() ![]() Kino's canoe, which is "at once property and a source of food," has been in his family for two generations. This morning, they are far behind the others because of the attention required by Coyotito. Into this alien world come Kino and Juana. Along the shore, the graceful old canoes are silent, but the Gulf itself is teeming with sea life of various kinds: brown algae floats upward and supports little sea horses while poisonous fish lie "on the bottom in the eel-grass beds," and bright swimming crabs and many other varieties of sea life contend with each other in the battle of survival. In contrast to the first chapter, this chapter takes us out into the Gulf, where the Pearl of the World is to be found. ![]()
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