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Rh I see the vast deserts of Western America, I see the Libyan, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts; I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs, I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones—the
 * Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian
 * sea, and the sea of Peru,

The Japan waters, those of Hindostan, the China Sea,
 * and the Gulf of Guinea,

The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British
 * shores, and the Bay of Biscay,

The clear-sunned Mediterranean, and from one to another
 * of its islands,

The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White Sea, and the sea around Greenland.

I behold the mariners of the world, Some are in storms—some in the night, with the
 * watch on the look-out,

Some drifting helplessly—some with contagious diseases.

I behold the steam-ships of the world, Some double the Cape of Storms—some Cape Verde
 * —others Cape Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,

Others Dondra Head—others pass the Straits of Sunda
 * —others Cape Lopatka—others Behring's
 * Straits,

Others Cape Horn—others the Gulf of Mexico, or
 * along Cuba or Hayti—others Hudson's Bay or
 * Baffin's Bay,

Others pass the Straits of Dover—others enter the
 * Wash—others the Firth of Solway—others round
 * Cape Clear—others the Land's End,