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the army of Xebxes, larger than the combined armies of Europe and America at this day. This immense force is made up of men who have, in general, no habitation but the ship ; who have no sweet and permanent home as sociations, who pass their existence under the iron discipline of the seas, varied occasionally by the fierce license of the shore. Exposed to arctic cold and tropic heat, battling forever