windandwater: While other ships may have gone from China to New…
While other ships may have gone from China to New York, and back again, touching at a score of ports, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating seamen like themselves.
So that did you carry them the news that another flood had come; they would only answer—“Well boys, here’s the ark!”
—Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 87
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