Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.
I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
I like geography. I like to know where places are.
The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.
I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.
