This is Comfort Point.

You see the cape, there?

Kaena Point

Upolu Point

And there Cape Martin.

The ship sailed around the cape.

The boat sailed around the promontory.

Cape Dezhnev is 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

It's the forever always on museum.

There a cape pushes out into the sea.

We could take a drive out to the Cape? We haven't done that for a while...

I made myself perfect in the use of the Tartar war bow. Tartar which?

Thursday Island is situated in the Torres Strait between Australia's northernmost Cape York and New Guinea.

I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific.

FULLLER'S PROFANE AND HOLY STATE.

There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.

After a year the ones from Japan are heading straight across the Pacific, while ours get caught in the California current and first head down to the latitude of Cabo San Lucas.

And that harpoon so like a corkscrew now was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco.

Night had fallen, and I went out under this great overturned saltshaker of stars, and I could see the tail lights of cars disappearing around the headlands 12 miles to the south.

Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water.

Sharks used to come into the bay, and the fishermen would tie a net off the headland, string it out, an old Manila net, and as the shark came round, it would hit the net, the net would collapse on it.