With a bound he was—yes, the dolphin was right—on the shore of a real island.
Shaking the water out of his clothes, he looked around. Those little beings, the corals, had certainly worked wonders.
“Shaking the Water out of his Clothes, he looked Around.”
The island was rather bare of trees and grass, but there was a cave near the shore which soon attracted Pinocchio’s attention. He went into it. It was not very large, but one could easily see that a man had been there.
“People must certainly be living here. From now on I shall have to believe Globicephalous,” thought the marionette.
When he came out, he walked around and started to explore the island. He came to a small pond. In it lived not only frogs, but also thousands of other tiny animals.
Pinocchio stopped to look at the water. It looked as green as grass. He certainly would have had another shock if some one had told him that the tiny animals that lived in it made it green. Yet that was really the case.
These animals are not visible to the naked eye. Still they are present in such great numbers that water sometimes looks green, sometimes red, and at other times even black, on account of them and their color.
This was not what interested Pinocchio most, however. He saw other animals swimming around very quickly. Some were very tiny, very long, and had no legs.