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Rh I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fat-tailed
 * sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing
 * wolf.

I see the high-lands of Abyssinia, I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree,
 * tamarind, date.

And see fields of teff-wheat, and see the places of
 * verdure and gold.

I see the Brazilian vaquero, I see the Bolivian ascending Mount Sorata, I see the Wacho crossing the plains—I see the
 * incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on
 * his arm,

I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for
 * their hides.

I see little and large sea-dots, some inhabited, some
 * uninhabited;

I see two boats with nets, lying off the shore of Paumanok,
 * quite still,

I see ten fishermen waiting—they discover now a
 * thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the
 * joined seine-ends in the water.

The boats separate—they diverge and row off, each
 * on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing
 * the mossbonkers,

The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop
 * ashore.

Some of the fishermen lounge in the boats—others
 * stand negligently ankle-deep in the water, poised
 * on strong legs,