It seemed to him, though, that Polynesians and Micronesians were one people, united by the vast ocean which he, and they, had crisscrossed for millennia in their tiny boats.
In addition to cardiac muscle cells, there are crisscrossing connective tissue fibers, which are made of collagen, that together form the fibrous cardiac skeleton, which helps support the muscle tissue.
For the next few months, the torch is going to crisscross France, ending up in Paris eventually, where it will light the Olympic cauldron on July 26, marking the start of the Summer Olympics with the Paralympics to follow.
Not only were there a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling, but enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling.
Cancellations in America are a bit less savage while planes are still permitted to crisscross its air space; southwest has cut just one in five flights.
Not to mention Russian and Turkish warships, submarines the huge number of transits per day, the busy ferry traffic that crisscrosses between Istanbul's two sides, and the difficult-to-navigate waters.
The surface of the water was crisscrossed by a floating arbor of marine plants belonging to that superabundant algae family that numbers more than 2,000 known species.
And yet, after years of conflict, countless fault lines like this crisscross Iraq, leaving riven communities and millions of upturned lives in their wake.