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, “a waste of water.” 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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