Excerpt from Hawaiian Life: Being Lazy Letters From Low Latitudes DO you remember one silver strand of spi der-web that chanced to catch our eye? It was stretched due east and west overhead in the cupola, and we called it the Tropic of Can cer; and weaving a Puck's girdle Of this filmy fabric, we fled in imagination over sea and shore in the very ecstasy of circumnavigation. How we laughed to scorn the ignorance of those who know us not, and reviled the ama teuf geographer who vainly confounds us with Tahiti, or ...
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Excerpt from Hawaiian Life: Being Lazy Letters From Low Latitudes DO you remember one silver strand of spi der-web that chanced to catch our eye? It was stretched due east and west overhead in the cupola, and we called it the Tropic of Can cer; and weaving a Puck's girdle Of this filmy fabric, we fled in imagination over sea and shore in the very ecstasy of circumnavigation. How we laughed to scorn the ignorance of those who know us not, and reviled the ama teuf geographer who vainly confounds us with Tahiti, or sweeps us away toward New Guinea and the uttermost parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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