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252 The boats are partly drawn up—the water slaps
 * against them,

On the sand, in heaps and winrows, well out from the
 * water, lie the green-backed spotted mossbonkers.

I see the despondent red man in the west, lingering
 * about the banks of Moingo, and about Lake
 * Pepin,

He has heard the quail and beheld the honey-bee, and
 * sadly prepared to depart.

I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat, poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge, drawn by
 * dogs,

I see the porpoise-hunters—I see the whale-crews of
 * the South Pacific and the North Atlantic,

I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland
 * —I mark the long winters, and the
 * isolation.

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random
 * a part of them,

I am a real Parisian, I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin,
 * Constantinople,

I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh,
 * Limerick,

I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons,
 * Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin,
 * Florence,