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Updated: May 7, 2025
We successfully used great beams for the purpose, and then got the ship ready with all the water and provisions we could manage. Scintharus was to navigate her. Next day the whale was dead. We hauled the vessel up, brought her through one of the gaps, slung her to the teeth, and so let her gently down to the water.
The continuance of the wind making life intolerable, we adopted the plan, suggested by Scintharus, of hewing an extensive cavern in the ice, in which we stayed a month, lighting fires and feeding on fish; we had only to dig these out.
We had put five and twenty men in ambush, with directions to fall on the enemy's rear as soon as they had passed; they executed their orders, and came on from behind cutting them down, while the rest of us five and twenty also, including Scintharus and his son met them face to face with a spirited and resolute attack. It was risky work, but in the end we routed and chased them to their dens.
The wooden goose of our stern-post suddenly clapped its wings and started cackling; Scintharus, who was bald, recovered his hair; most striking of all, the ship's mast came to life, putting forth branches sideways, and fruit at the top; this fruit was figs, and a bunch of black grapes, not yet ripe.
Drawn by the spell of it we came to land, moored the ship, and left her, in charge of Scintharus and two others. Taking our way through flowery meadows we came upon the guardians of the peace, who bound us with rose- garlands their strongest fetters and brought us to the governor. As we went they told us this was the island called of the Blest, and its governor the Cretan Rhadamanthus.
The Flounderfoots and Crays were enraged, and commenced operations with a tumultuous inroad upon Scintharus this was our old man's name. Expecting this, we were awaiting the attack in full armour.
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