Beneath her stretched the liquid plain between Asia and America.

The waters now had assumed that singular color which has earned for them the name of the Milky Sea.

In the half shadow, which the enfeebled rays of the sun were unable to dissipate, the surface of the Pacific was a milky white.

It seemed like a vast snowfield, whose undulations were imperceptible at such a height.

If the sea had been solidified by the cold, and converted into an immense icefield, its aspect could not have been much different.