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...ights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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... CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO THE SEA AND THE OBSTACLES WHICH STRANGE BELIEF... ... COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians ... ...d Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, thephilosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrousl... ...ward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage --Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teach... ...l of superstition at the door of knowledge -- Tales of goblins damned -- The hand of Satan on the sea -- Beliefs of the middle ages -- The awe of boun... ... of iron. The articles which they offered were skins of foxes, deer, coons, martens,polecats, sea-otters, bows, arrows,spears, wooden visors of hideou...

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...reigners on Hawaiian shores, the health and well-being of the people was reflected in the health of nature around them. Today, whether looking to the sea and fisheries, or to the flat lands and mountains, or to the condition of the people, it is all too easy to find signs of stress and diminishing health of Hawaiian nature and the native culture. As will be seen in this st...

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...owledge of Hawaiian fisheries—including those extending from mountain streams to the beaches, estuaries and near shore, and extending out to the deep sea—and changes in the nature of fishery resources of the Hawaiian Islands as recorded in both written and oral historical descriptions. The historical documentary research cited in this study was compiled from documentary re...

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...e health and well-being of the people was reflected in the health of nature around them. Today, whether looking to the sea and fisheries, or to the ... ... HiPae74-080103 Kuu akua i ka moana nei la — e, My god here in the sea—, A i ai ka ia... ... line of ours. Ea, e Ku kuu akua i ka moana nei la — e. Say Ku, my god here in the sea—. Amama oe e K... ...cluding those extending from mountain streams to the beaches, estuaries and near shore, and extending out to the deep sea—and changes in the nature... ...s management protocols, were sustained by the wealth—and who lived within the limitations—of the natural landscape from sea to mountains. Such tradi... ...nds • 457 The Seal Fishery • 464 Sea-Otter Fishery ... ...d, owing to the destruction of the object sought, or for other reasons. Among these may be mentioned the whale, seal, otter, shark, pearl, beche... ...onally, even as late as 1901, when a Russian and a Canadian vessel visited Waimea, on Kauai, to refit. Sea-Otter Fishery. Sea-ott... ...rom the journal of one of her pioneer merchants: *** 1829, April 1.—* * * Sold French a lot of sea otter skins belonging to Dana...

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...Contents Introduction LEAVES OF GRASS INSCRIPTIONS One's-Self I Sing As I Ponder'd in Silence In Cabin'd Ships at Sea To Foriegn Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidólons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginners To the States On Journeys through the States To a Certain Cantatrice Me Imperturbe ...

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...each at Night AloneSong For All Seas, All ShipsPatroling BarnegatAfter the Sea-ShipBY THE ROADSIDEA Boston BalladEuropeA Hand-MirrorGodsGermsThoughtsW... ...sFancies at NavesinkElection Day, November, 1884With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!Death of General GrantRed Jacket (from Aloft)Washington's Monument, Feb... ...rave soldiers. In Cabin'd Ships at SeaIn cabin’d ships at sea,The boundless blue on every side expanding,With whistling winds and mus... ...ous waves,Chant on, sail on, bear o’er the boundless blue from me to every sea,This song for mariners and all their ships. To For... ...ese with the past,Of vanish’d lands, of all the reigns of kings across the sea,Old conquerors, old campaigns, old sailors’ voyages, J... ...e hunter,Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock, where the otter is feeding on fish,Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps b...

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...gust 1848) Was a British Royal Navy Officer, Novelist, and a Contemporary and Acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Noted Today As An Early Pioneer of the Sea Story. He is Now Known Particularly for the Semi-Autobiographical Novel Mr Midshipman Easy and His Childrens Novel the Children of the New Forest, and for a Widely Used System of Maritime Flag Signalling, Known As Marryat...

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...o Eat? A Few Lean Horses,Perchance A Bear; And The Stinking Flesh Of The Otter Or Beaver They May EntrapDuring The Season. "Would They Not Be To... ...nd Traditions Are Local; They Refer To CountriesOn The Other Side Of The Sea, Countries Where The Summer IsPerpetual, The Population Numberless, A... ...y Panther. "And A Strange And Numerous People Landed on The Shores OfThe Sea: They Were Rich And Strong; They Made The Shoshones Their Slaves,And ... ... 50 The Woods, To The Mountains, And To The Borders Of The Sea;And, Lo! The Great Father Of Life Smiled again Upon Them; The Evil Ge... .... The Missionary, PadreMarini, Not Being Very Well, Had An Idea That The Sea-Air Would Do HimGood, And Joined our Company. We Had Many Boats; The ... ...ood On My Feet And Looked around Me. I Found Myself Floating On The Deep Sea, FarFrom The Shore, The Outline Of Which Was Tinged with The Golden H... ... "From The Main River, Yes," Answered he, Shaking My Hand, "ButMany An Otter Have I Killed in a Pretty Lake Two Miles From Here, At The Southern... ...e Hides Of Thousands Of Buffaloes; We Have The Furs OfThe Beaver And The Otter; We Have Plenty Of Copper In our Mountains, AndOf Gold In Our Strea... ...Its BonesBroken.] The Amphibious Are The Beaver, The Fresh-Water And Sea-Otter,The Musk-Rat, And A Species Of Long Lizard, With Sharp Teeth, VeryL...

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...ws of those grimacesA straight line stretches tautA nerve twistsLa mer the sea satedL’amour loveL’amer the bitter smile of death la mort ... ...ughts of summer lightningWith hour-glass waistMy wife with the waist of an otter between the tiger’s teethMy wife with mouth a cockade and cluster of ... ...eechnutOf Midsummer NightOf privet and angelfish nestsWith arms of foam of sea and the locksAnd the mingling of wheat and the millMy wife with her spi... ...he wheels of a lovely dream their splendid rutsThat rise high above on the sea-shells of their robesAnd astonishment bounding wildly over the seaDepar... ... Savagnin Blanc on a silver salver A tall pillar of tourmaline over the sea And the path of intellectual adventure Which climbs vertically ... ...iles,Wings covering the world with lightBoats charged with the sky and the sea,Hunters of sounds and fountains of colour,Scents hatched from a clutch ...

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... In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hi...

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...the Autumnal Moon A Mathematical Problem To the Rev. George Coleridge I II III IV Sonnet: On Quitting School for College Sonnet: To the River Otter On a Discovery Made Too Late The Eolian Harp Lines in the Manner of Spenser Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Bi...

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...I III IVSonnet: On Quitting School for CollegeSonnet: To the River OtterOn a Discovery Made Too LateThe Eolian HarpLines in the Manner of Spen... ...ith hers–my widow’d Parent lorn.[1791] Sonnet: To the River OtterDear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West! How many various-fate... ...e chamber-window. We could hearAt silent noon, and eve, and early morn,The Sea’s faint murmur. In the open airOur Myrtles blossom’d; and across the po... ...ot!Thy Jasmin and thy window-peeping Rose,And Myrtles fearless of the mild sea-air.And I shall sigh fond wishes—sweet Abode!Ah!—had none greater! And ... ...ainThe many-steepled tract magnificentOf hilly fields and meadows, and the sea,With some fair bark, perhaps, whose sails light upThe slip of smooth cl... ...er, tillit reached the Line. The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the s... ...and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!Till a great sea-bird, called the Albatross, came through the snow-fog, and was received...

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... and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God! I’d rather be A ...

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...been set..."Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais, August 1802Calais, August 1802Composed near Calais, ... ...he sky...""The world is too much with us; late and soon...""With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh...""Where lies the Land to which yon Ship mu... ...tion of the Sick XXIX. The Commination Service XXX. Forms of Prayer at Sea XXXI. Funeral Service XXXII. Rural Ceremony XXXIII. Regrets XXX... ...he Channel, between the Coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man XIII. At Sea off the Isle of Man XIV XV. On Entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man ... ...ath the many-tinted hills,A mighty waste of mist the valley fills,A solemn sea! whose billows wide aroundStand motionless, to awful silence bound:Pine... ...ey are!There sits the Vicar and his Dame;And there my good friend, Stephen Otter;And, ere the light of evening fail,To them I must relate the TaleOf P... ... VIIIHow disappeared He?—ask the newt and toad,Inheritors of his abode;The otter crouching undisturbed,In her dank cleft;—but be thou curbed,O froward...

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...f Norse MythologyLexiconAbundiaSee Fulla.ÆgirÆgir or Hler, god of the deep sea dwelt either in the cool depths of his liquid realm or had his abode on... ...e considered cruel by the Northern nations, who had muchto suffer from the sea, which, surrounding them on all sides, ran far into the heart of their ... ... In radiant grandeur, Upreared the sea-god’s home. More dazzling than foam of the waves ... ...lake rippled o’er.” Valhalla (J. C. Jones)Ægir (the sea), like his brothers Kari and Loki, is supposed to have belonged to an o... ... overturn vessels, and to greedily drag them to the bottom of the sea, a vocation in which he was thought to take fiendis... ...ourite mortals.When Hriedmar required, in payment for the death of his son Otter, that Otter's skin be completely covered ingold, Loki lost no time in... ...ns. Fafnir, the eldest, was gifted with a fearlesssoul and a powerful arm. Otter, the second son, had the ability to change his shape. To please the a... ...whose fierce glances and Ægis helmet none dared encounter.When Loki killed Otter, he was forced to randsom his companions with treasure stolen from th... ...arth and sea.”As the gods came near to Hreidmar’s dwelling, Loki killed an otter that was basking in the sun. This wasnone other than the dwarf king’s...

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...ating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs, “The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn, The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms, The play of shine a...

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...lves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth overthe inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusettsand Mai... ... municipalgovernment, marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . .nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too f... ...ess softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam. The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven andthe orbs, the fores... ...m buried. Thesea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of thefruition of his love and of all perfection and be... ...is not a minute ofthe light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor anydirection of the sky nor any trade or employment n... ...,Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by...

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... kill? 6.6 Beef Cattle Statistics 172 - how many cattle do people kill? 6.7 Fish Statistics 175 - how much fish do people farm and catch from the sea? 6.8 Fur Animal Statistics 177 - the fur trade kills endless millions and threatens species. 6.9 Numbers of Animals in Biomedical Research 182 - how many animals do people experiment on in laboratories? 7 Personali...

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... 175 - how much fish do people farm and catch from the sea?6.8 Fur Animal Statistics 177 -... ...period. Good examples of sustained directaction for animal rights are: ● Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - organised, methodical, involving many p... ... mass of citizenry to employ direct action (as in thethree examples below: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Battle of Brightlingsea, and StopHun... ...of origin. According to later reports, Rambo was granted asylum in Britain.Sea Shepherd Conservation SocietySea Shepherd is a seafaring activist organ... ...name comes from its first ship, a trawler bought in Britain and renamedthe Sea Shepherd. The society engages in direct action to save marine wildlife,... ... 179 How to Do Animal Rights Continued... Otter 29,000 Otter 29,000 ...

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... . . 308 Tactical Airlift in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Airlift Support of Ground Operations . . . . . 317 Strategic Airlift Support of SEA. . . . . . . . . .326 Estes on Airlift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Airlift Consolidation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347 The Doctrinal Context at the End. . . . . . . .353 The Airlift Doctrinal He...

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.... . . . . . . . . . 317 Strategic Airlift Support of SEA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...areas of war production," andsecond "to provide the security of the principle sea routes and seven main air routesover which men and supplies could be... ...e Ninth Air Force . Thiscommand was extremely reliant on air transport as the sea lines of communicationwere long and dangerous . The route to the the... ...unts of cargo wererepackaged, having arrived at the port prepared for rail or sea shipment in heavy,bulky containers. The experts also found that much... ...nd sometimes received materiel by air that could have gone morejustifiably by sea; others, by necessity, received an insufficient cut of the pie. ColR... ...oy a company of the airplanes into Vietnam in 1962 because C-123sand Army U-1 Otters already requested would serve the purpose. The Air Force wasagain...

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... one last weekend in this area. February is a good time to visit the seal colony with the pups a few weeks old and fattening up in readiness for the sea. Soon the adults will leave the pups to their fate, after weaning it will be up to the pups to teach themselves to swim and hunt for food. The baby elephant seals have changed enormously in the few days that I have been...

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... top, the animals, hundreds of feet below and well awareof my presence stare up at me; otters and seals appear to bid mefarewell from the ocean far be... ...sit the seal colony with the pups afew weeks old and fattening up in readiness for the sea. Soon theadults will leave the pups to their fate, after we... ... walking and stumbling towards SanSimeon. Amongst rock pools filled with hermit crabs, sea stars andsea anemones while small plovers, about the size o... ...pty. The beach appears empty as well! A lone female sits on the beach looking out to sea and the pupsappear three times the size they were a few day... ...ch (by climbing down very steepcliffs) and spend hours by the crashing waves, watching sea ottersbashing abalones on the rock on their stomachs and ha... ...by climbing down very steepcliffs) and spend hours by the crashing waves, watching sea ottersbashing abalones on the rock on their stomachs and harbou... ...‘inthe shade’ they feel a little better; being at four thousand fivehundred feet above sea level will not help my sunburn; but this placeis sure worth...

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...rious, when delving into some of the dry-as-dust early Australianand South Sea official records, or reading the more interesting oldnewspapers and boo... ...oks of "Voyages," to note how soon the Americans"took a hand" in the South Sea trade, and how quickly they practicallymonopolised the whaling industry... ...ck of an East Indiaman namedthe _Sydney Cave_--a ship famous in Australian sea story. Kingdespatched an officer to the spot with orders to "command th... ...f bed and trailed me in this fashion along the ground till they cameto the sea beach. Here they beat me with clubs, then kept me three-quarters of an ... ...icans to face about, atwhich instant I got my hands loose and ran into the sea, determined tobe drowned rather than be tortured to death. I was follow...

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...dium Dynamo Stadium Protasiv Yar The Racing Circle Kachalka Holosiivskyi Park Feofaniya Pyrohiv Lysa Hora Pushcha-Vodytsia Mezhyhirya Kyiv Sea & HPP KyUR Igor Sikorsky Kazimir Malevich Serge Lifar Evgeny Paton Klitschko Brothers Eugenia Gapchinska Kyivska Perepichka Puzata Hata Chicken Kyiv Kyiv Torte...

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... 79 Tram 109 Kyiv Sea & HPP 20 Golden Gates 50 Landscape Alley... ... 53 23 stucco under the sea ceiling . With a huge kraken in the center, the entire ... ...s) and long (from Kyiv to Kaniv, Zaporizhia and all the way to the Black Sea). Boat- ing is very popular with Kyivans: they like to celebrate we... ... leaved forests are home to many rare and endangered animals: ermine, otter, badger, and midyanka (smooth snake) among them. Locals say that ... ... point overlooking the Kyiv reservoir, or the Kyiv Sea, as it is called in Ukraine. Mezhyhirya is the former residence of... ... 225 109 Man-made sea not far from the capital Kyiv Sea & HPP This u...

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... Chapter 5: Insatiable Humanity 33nature’s balance. “In 1991, an orca—a killerwhale—was seen eating a sea otter. orcas andotters usually... ...apter 5: Insatiable Humanity 33nature’s balance. “In 1991, an orca—a killerwhale—was seen eating a sea otter. orcas andotters usually coe... ...p-pened? Ecologists found that ocean perch andherring were also declining. orcas don’t eat thosefish, but seals and sea lions do. And seals and sealio... ...als and sealions are what orcas usually eat, and their popula-tion had also declined. So deprived of their sealsand sea lions, orcas started turning t... ...eir popula-tion had also declined. So deprived of their sealsand sea lions, orcas started turning to the playfulsea otters for dinner. So otters ha... ...ters have vanished because the fish,which they never ate in the first place, havevanished. Now, the ripple spreads, otters are nolonger there to eat s... ...sh,which they never ate in the first place, havevanished. Now, the ripple spreads, otters are nolonger there to eat sea urchins, so the sea urchinpopu... .... with more fish to eat,pollock flourish. They in turn attack the perch andherring that were food for the seals and sea lions.with the decline in the ... ...e food for the seals and sea lions.with the decline in the population of sea lionsand seals, the orcas must turn to otters.”34 Bail Yourself...

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...ams, porgys for short, 164 species)Order Perciformes Family Serranidae (sea basses, 102 species) Family Percidae (perches and darters, perches f... ...r fishermen as, at the time these terms were in common use,the industry at sea and work in fresh waters was almost entirely carried out by men. Thepol... ...openorth of the Pyrenees and Alps east towards the Black, Caspian and Aral Sea basins. 77 Common... ...2°C or temperatures are uniform. From the Sumerian abzu, meaningprimordial sea.abyss (prefix) = bottomless.abyssal = adjective for abyss.abyssal benth... ...lope and shelf break for images.abyssal zone = the middle zone of the deep sea between 3700 and 6000 m.abyssalpelagic zone = the abyssopelagic area of... ...lso called anchor trot.anchor seine = Danish seine (a seine or cone-shaped otter trawl which is hauled over an area ofabout 2 square kilometres to a s... ...hrates basin in Iraq; possibly a marinemammal entering from the sea or the otter.angel fillet = block fillet (a fillet comprising muscle mass from the... ... 159angle iron chain = chain bracket (a chain used on an otter board in pace of a bracket. Also calledback board chain, board chain,... ...s, seiners or longliners. Also calledsmall-scale fisheries. See cormorant, otter and stilt fishing and for images and fish wheel andreed boat and for ...

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... 24 (The Porcupine) 122Chapter 25 (The Otter Slide) 126Chapter 26 (Back To The ... ...Won The Battles Of Lake Erie, Plattsburg, And New Orleans, And The Great Sea Fights OfPorter, Bainbridge, Decatur, Lawrence, Perry, And Macdonough... ...nacle, He Stood In Silence, Awaiting The First Ray Of The Sun Over The Sea Water That Stretches Between Connecticut And Seawanaky. His Silent ... ...t Was Ended As A Golden Beam Shot From A Long, Low Cloud-Bank Over The Sea, And Quonab Sang A Weird Indian Song For The Rising Sun, An Invocatio... ... His Head, And Then To Prevent Further Talk, "Put Up Your Dew Cloth; The Sea Wind Blows To-Night." 27He Finished; Both St... ...Farther Side, Had A Sheer Drop And Gave A View Of The Village And Of The Sea. Whatever Joy She Had On Again Seeing Her Bome Was Speedily Queued ... ...ch Rolling Up And Down As It Travelled In The Stream. Quonab Whispered, "Otter," And Made Ready His Gun, But It Dived And Showed Itself No More. A... ...Degree The Tracks Of Other Animals -- Mink In Fair Abundance, One Or Two Otters, A Mountain Lion, And A CowMoose With Her Calf. It Was Thrilling T... ... Animals Are To Be Found Along The Little Valleys Of The Stream: Beaver, Otter, Mink, Muskrat, Coon, Are Examples. Those That Do Not Actually Li...

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...RECK OF THE HESPERUS It was the schooner Hesperus,That sailed the wintry sea;Andthe skipper had taken his little daughter,To bear him company. Blu... ..., what may it be?""Some ship in distress, that cannot liveIn such an angry sea!" "O father! I see a gleaming light,Oh say, what may it be?"Butthe fa... ...om the land;Itwas the sound of the trampling surfOn the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows,She drifted a drearywr... ...she stove and sank,Ho! ho! thebreakers roared! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,A fisherman stood aghast,To see the form of a maiden fair,Lashed ... ... see the form of a maiden fair,Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast,The salt tears in hereyes;And he saw her hair,... ...s andsand-bars." Straight into the river KwasindPlunged as if he were an otter,Dived as if he were a beaver,Stood up to his waist in water,To hisarm...

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...RECK OF THE HESPERUS It was the schooner Hesperus,That sailed the wintry sea;Andthe skipper had taken his little daughter,To bear him company. Blu... ..., what may it be?""Some ship in distress, that cannot liveIn such an angry sea!" "O father! I see a gleaming light,Oh say, what may it be?"Butthe fa... ...om the land;Itwas the sound of the trampling surfOn the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows,She drifted a drearywr... ...she stove and sank,Ho! ho! thebreakers roared! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,A fisherman stood aghast,To see the form of a maiden fair,Lashed ... ... see the form of a maiden fair,Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast,The salt tears in hereyes;And he saw her hair,... ...s andsand-bars." Straight into the river KwasindPlunged as if he were an otter,Dived as if he were a beaver,Stood up to his waist in water,To hisarm...

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...e that his missing parents were the onessending him secret tokens from beyond the sea. He imagined thesociety that had yielded such thingamajigs. They... ...spooky catastrophes that followed.” “Such as?” “The Red Scourge that killed all sea life, the wildfires thatlasted for many seasons, and the deformi... ...rld.” “Did they tell you about Cyanland?” “What?” “That other world beyond the sea.” “I know nothing about that. They mentioned an advancedbreed o... ....” “What other world?” “I told you. There’s another world, far away, beyond the sea. Icall it Cyanland.” “Are you making this up to impress me?” “... ...re frightenedby bears, not the other way round. That thought sparked anotion⸺Land Otter People. He envisioned an otter body belowher waist, under thos... ...en his grandmother’s voice materialized, like a backgroundsound. “Beware of land otters. They have the power to read andcontrol our thoughts. They ca... ...held out a bunch of berries in thehollow of her hand.” He recalled that the Land Otter People only ate raw food. Hishands shook as he tried to come u... ...ing barefoot on themoss?” “Not in this cold dew.” Mish remembered that the Land Otter People were said to beshrewd, that dogs were the best protecti... ... Our land is a far cry from being southern. This isthe South and the Southernmost Sea,” he pointed to the bottomof the map. 51...