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I see the vast deserts of Western America,
I see the Libyan, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts;
I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,
I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones—the
Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian
sea, and the sea of Peru,
The Japan waters, those of Hindostan, the China Sea,
and the Gulf of Guinea,
The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British
shores, and the Bay of Biscay,
The clear-sunned Mediterranean, and from one to another
of its islands,
The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America,
The White Sea, and the sea around Greenland.

9.I behold the mariners of the world,
Some are in storms—some in the night, with the
watch on the look-out,
Some drifting helplessly—some with contagious diseases.

10.I behold the steam-ships of the world,
Some double the Cape of Storms—some Cape Verde
—others Cape Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,
Others Dondra Head—others pass the Straits of Sunda
—others Cape Lopatka—others Behring's
Straits,
Others Cape Horn—others the Gulf of Mexico, or
along Cuba or Hayti—others Hudson's Bay or
Baffin's Bay,
Others pass the Straits of Dover—others enter the
Wash—others the Firth of Solway—others round
Cape Clear—others the Land's End,