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We were approaching the Pillars of Hercules, already the African one was in sight, the Rock of Gibraltar was yet to come. The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. The information the ancients didn’t have was very voluminous. Even the prophets never once hinted at the existence of a great continent on our side of the water yet they must have known it was there...

— Feb 01, 2026 10:03AM

The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

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one moment the bowsprit was taking deadly aim at the sun and the next it was trying to harpoon a shark in the bottom of the ocean. What a weird sensation to feel the stem of a ship sinking swiftly from under you and the bow climbing high among the clouds! I was not seasick. If there is one thing that will make a man insufferably self-conceited it is to have his stomach behave itself when all his comrades are seasick

— Feb 01, 2026 04:08AM