A WATER-ARCH IN THE AIR.
On the next island they saw a very wonderful thing, namely, a great
stream of water which, gushing up out of the strand, rose into the air
in the form of a rainbow, till it crossed the whole island and came down
on the strand at the other side. They walked under it without getting
wet; and they hooked down from it many large salmon. Great quantities of
salmon of a very great size fell also out of the water over their heads
down on the ground; so that the whole island smelled of fish, and it
became troublesome to gather them on account of their abundance.
From the evening of Sunday till the evening of Monday, the stream never
ceased to flow, and never changed its place, but remained spanning the
island like a solid arch of water. Then the voyagers gathered the
largest of the salmon, till they had as much as the curragh would hold;
after which they sailed out into the great sea.