Mardi Volume 1 Chapter 87 - Nora-Bamma

In which the narrator and his company glide silently through a calm lagoon toward the mystic isle of Nora-Bamma, a place enwreathed in an ethereal haze where the boundaries between waking and sleeping seem delicately blurred. The isle, described through the musings of Braid-Beard, is a dreamy refuge for melancholics and dreamers alike, whose enchantments lull strangers into a deep and mysterious repose.