The modern form of ethnography was inaugurated by Malinowski's Augonauts of the Western Pacific. Augonauts depicts the practices of gift exchange and seafaring in Micronesia. "Argo" is the name of a ship in Greek mythology. Argonauts is principally written from the point of view of one asail. Ethnography at its inception, then, was likened to the ship, and the ethnogapher's act to seafaring. Seafaring involves limitations in bodily movement and the senses; the unseen and the unheard gain a heightened importance. This is to say that ethnography, as bequeathed to us by Argonauts, takes place at the limits of the senses. From this point of view, ethnography as a method of research conscientiously rejects the rhetoric of an all-seeing and all-hearing Science. We will explore the role of the unseen and the unheard in select ethnographic classics and in our own lives.