Bound for warmer skies, she was, however, soon in the waters of the Gulf Stream, where the work of collecting began in the fields of sargassum, those drifting, wide-spread expanses of loose sea-weed carrying a countless population, lilliputian in size, to be sure, but very various in character.
"Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence"
Louis Agassiz
Agassiz was no less interested than other naturalists have been in the old question so long asked and still unanswered, about the sargassum.
"Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence"
Louis Agassiz
He had passed through the same region before, in going to Brazil, but then he was on a large ocean steamer, while from the little Hassler, of 360 tons, one could almost fish by hand from the sargassum fields.
"Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence"
Louis Agassiz