"The sands and flats are discovered"
Across the Pacific. Sunda and Sahul ; "Butterfly wings scattered over the water" ; A pattern of islands
Poseidon's waters. A world of ceaseless movement ; Timber and mekku-stones
The monsoon world. The Erythraean Sea ; "A place of great traffic" ; "We spread our cloudlike sails aloft"
Turbulent waters in the North. Seascapes of ancestors ; "Storms fell on the stern in icy feathers"
The Pacific to the West. The Aleutians : "The sea becomes very high" ; Raven releases the fish ; The fiery pool and the spiny oyster
Of fish and portolans.