The professor turned to Momosan and said, “Malumba didi oisafal huna huna, vavadu?”
She nodded and began to sing a most peculiar song.
It consisted of a handful of notes repeated over and over again: “Eni meni allubeni, vanna tai susura teni.”
As she sang, she clapped her hands and pranced around in time to the refrain.
The tune and the words were so easy to remember that the rest joined in, one after another,
until the entire crew was singing, clapping and cavorting around in time to the music.
Nothing could have been more astonishing than to see the professor himself
and that old sea dog, Jim Ironside, singing and clapping like children in a playground.
And then, lo and behold, the thing they never thought would happen came to pass:
the Travelling Tornado rotated more and more slowly until it came to a stop and began to sink beneath the waves.
With a thunderous roar, the sea closed over it. The storm died away, the rain ceased, the sky became blue and cloudless, the waves subsided.
The Argo lay motionless on the glittering surface as if nothing but peace and tranquillity had ever reigned there.
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