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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19162, 19 November 1927, Page 11

About half-way between the West Indies and West Africa lies a vast, stagnant, sheet of water known as the Paraasso Spa. Round it circulate two liiiffhtv currents, which for untold centuries have been bringing and leaving in its huge masses of floating seaweed called sargassium, driftwood, and other flotsam and jetsam. In time this concentration of weed. etc.. became so thirl; that sailing vessels were often rauelit fast in it and their crews doomed to die of thirst and starvation. Various animals, such as rats, and particularly bloodthirsty crabs, have adapted themselves to living in it, and abound in large numbers. Even nowadays slow steamers sometimes nave difficulty in getting clear, as their propellers .are liable, to be cloeged by the gigantic tangles of wood. The colour of the sea is. perhaps, the purest of all the ocean blues.