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Landwards the river was trapped into docks, spanned by low bridges and made into the glistening part of a patchwork of water, brick and iron.
Seawards, the whole of the coast is veiled by the fringe of islands and the zone of shoals. Landwards, the loop of railway round the Frisian peninsula would form the line of communication in rear of the seven streams. Esens was to be the local centre of administration when the scheme grew to maturity, but not till then.
The oars dipped and the boat crept slowly landwards. "You know the landing, Grim?" Grim, who sat at the tiller, merely nodded; and presently the bows grated on a strip of gravel beach. "The trolls take you!" muttered Ketill. "Could you not have told us to slacken speed? The dead could hear a landing like this." "'Tis all right yet, Ketill," whispered Estein. "We are too far from the hall."
He had had a bad shake up, and was glad of a few moments' rest. He was quite safe where he was, for the bluff protected him from stray Turkish bullets. Down below, through the mist, boats were shooting landwards from the transports, bringing more men, stores of all kinds, ammunition, and materials for setting up a wireless installation.
Great flocks of clangorous birds, breasting the wind and hardly moving their wings, passed us in the midst of the fogs, petrels, divers, halcyons, and albatross, bound landwards, as though to show us the way. Owing, no doubt, to these mists, we were unable to discern Traversey Island.
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