Sentence:  There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience. It was the body of a low type of man or a high type of beast. In neither instance would it have been of a <WSD>seafaring</WSD> race. Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been hurled from the cliffs above. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Living one's life at sea.