"now we will set out at our leisure," and with these words he leapt into the sea with urashima on his back. down through the water the tortoise dived. for a long time these two strange companions rode through the sea. urashima never grew tired, nor his clothes moist with the water. at last, far away in the distance a magnificent gate appeared, and behind the gate, the long, sloping roofs of a palace on the horizon.