A Thousand-Mile Walk 



leaped into the air, showing his splendid colors 

 and wonderful speed. After the first scattering 

 flight all steady pursuit was useless, and the 

 dolphin had but to pounce about in the broken 

 mob of its weary prey until satisfied with his 

 meal. 



We are apt to look out on the great ocean and 

 regard it as but a half-blank part of our globe 

 a sort of desert, &quot;a waste of water.&quot; But, 

 land animals though we be, land is about as 

 unknown to us as the sea, for the turbid 

 glances we gain of the ocean in general through 

 commercial eyes are comparatively worthless. 

 Now that science is making comprehensive 

 surveys of the life of the sea, and the forms of 

 its basins, and similar surveys are being made 

 into the land deserts, hot and cold, we may at 

 length discover that the sea is as full of life as 

 the land. None can tell how far man s knowl 

 edge may yet reach. 



After passing the Straits and sailing up the 

 coast, when about opposite the south end of the 

 Carolina coast, we had stiff head winds all the 

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