The Piazza Tales Chapter 5 - The Encantadas - Sketch Second. Two Sides to a Tortoise

In which the narrator recounts the encounter with colossal, ancient tortoises of a remote island, evoking their venerable presence and the enduring mystery of their existence amidst a rugged and enchanted landscape. He then turns his gaze to a solitary sea-rock tower, a natural sentinel crowded with strange sea-birds, whose eerie aspect and wild clamour form a haunting tableau upon the ocean's boundless stage.