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voyaging is only great-circle sailing, and the doctors 
prescribe for diseases of the skin merely. One hastens 
to Southern Africa to chase the giraffe; but surely that 
is not the game he would be after. How long, pray, 
would a man hunt giraffes if he could? Snipes and 
woodcocks also may afford rare sport; but I trust it 
would be nobler game to shoot one’s self. — 
“ Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll find 
A thousand regions in your mind 
Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be 
Expert in home-cosmography.” 
What does Africa,—what does the West stand for? 
Is not our own interior white on the chart? black 
though it may prove, like the coast, when discovered. 
Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Missis¬ 
sippi, or a North-West Passage around this continent, 
that we would find? Are these the problems which 
most concern mankind? Is Franklin the only man 
who is lost, that his wife should be so earnest to find 
him ? Does Mr. Grinnell know where he himself is ? 
Be rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clarke and 
Frobisher, of your own streams and oceans; explore 
your own higher latitudes, — with shiploads of preserved 
meats to support you, if they be necessary; and pile the 
empty cans sky-high for a sign. Were preserved meats 
invented to preserve meat merely ? Nay, be a Colum¬ 
bus to whole new continents and worlds within you, 
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. 
Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the 
earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hum¬ 
mock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who 
have no seZ/’-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. 
