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Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
-Adapted from Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Hermann Melville (1851)
What does the speaker mean by the phrase "watery part of the world?"
Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
-Adapted from Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Hermann Melville (1851)
What does the speaker mean by the phrase "watery part of the world?"