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+Sometimes someone would speak in a boat. But most
+of the boats were silent except for the dip of the
+oars. They spread apart after they were out of the
+mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the
+part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish. The
+old man knew he was going far out and he left the
+smell of the land behind and rowed out into the
+clean early morning smell of the ocean. He saw the
+phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as
+he rowed over the part of the ocean that the
+fishermen called the great well because there was
+a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all
+sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the
+current made against the steep walls of the floor
+of the ocean. Here there were concentrations of
+shrimp and bait fish and sometimes schools of
+squid in the deepest holes and these rose close to
+the surface at night where all the wandering fish
+fed on them.
+
+In the dark the old man could feel the morning
+coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling
+sound as flying fish left the water and the
+hissing that their stiff set wings made as they
+soared away in the darkness. He was very fond of
+flying fish as they were his principal friends on
+the ocean. He was sorry for the birds, especially
+the small delicate dark terns that were always
+flying and looking and almost never finding, and
+he thought, "The birds have a harder life than we
+do except for the robber birds and the heavy
+strong ones. Why did they make birds so delicate
+and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can
+be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But
+she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and
+such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with
+their small sad voices are made too delicately for
+the sea."
+
+He always thought of the sea as la mar which is
+what people call her in Spanish when they love
+her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things
+of her but they are always said as though she were
+a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who
+used buoys as floats for their lines and had
+motorboats, bought when the shark livers had
+brought much money, spoke of her as el mar which
+is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or
+a place or even an enemy. But the old man always
+thought of her as feminine and as something that
+gave or withheld great favours, and if she did
+wild or wicked things it was because she could not
+help them. The moon affects her as it does a
+woman, he thought.
+
+He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for
+him since he kept well within his speed and the
+surface of the ocean was flat except for the
+occasional swirls of the current. He was letting
+the current do a third of the work and as it
+started to be light he saw he was already further
+out than he had hoped to be at this hour.
+
+I worked the deep wells for a week and did
+nothing, he thought. Today I'll work out where the
+schools of bonita and albacore are and maybe there
+will be a big one with them.
+
+Before it was really light he had his baits out
+and was drifting with the current. One bait was
+down forty fathoms. The second was at seventy-five
+and the third and fourth were down in the blue
+water at one hundred and one hundred and
+twenty-five fathoms. Each bait hung head down with
+the shank of the hook inside the bait fish, tied
+and sewed solid and all the projecting part of the
+hook, the curve and the point, was covered with
+fresh sardines. Each sardine was hooked through
+both eyes so that they made a half-garland on the
+projecting steel. There was no part of the hook
+that a great fish could feel which was not sweet
+smelling and good tasting.