Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes

Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes

Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands,

Then can't we lose them on those shoals?

You'll see the water shoals on the island side... while the deep soundings run to the mainland.

A Dutch frigate had come to grief on the shoals off of Topsail Cay and while waiting for the tide to rise they saw what they thought was an old man paddling out on a log.

It is not likely I would ever have heard, for I must tell you that Chester, after calling at some Australian port to patch up his brig rigged sea anachronism, steamed out into the Pacific with a crew of twenty two hands all told, and the only news having a possible bearing upon the mystery of his fate was the news of a hurricane which is supposed to have swept in its course over the Walpole shoals, a month or so afterwards.