sail. Next day they came in sight of Italy, which they hailed with
loud shouts of rejoicing. It was the south-eastern point of the
peninsula, and as the Trojans approached it, they saw a harbor into
which they ran their ships. Here they went ashore and offered
sacrifices to Minerva, and also to Juno, remembering the advice of
Helenus. But that part of the country being inhabited by Greeks, they
made haste to depart, and taking their course southward, they passed
by the Bay of Ta-ren'tum and down the coast until they came to the
entrance of the strait now called Messina. This was a point of danger,
for the loud roaring of the sea warned them that they were not far
from the terrible Charybdis. Quickly Palinurus turned his ship to the
left, and, all the others following, made straight for the Sicilian
shore. Here they landed almost at the foot of AEtna, famous then as in
our own times as a volcano or burning mountain. Under this mountain,
according to an old legend, Jupiter imprisoned En-cel'a-dus, one of
the giants who had dared to make war against heaven, and as often as
the giant turned his weary sides, all Sicily trembled and the mountain
sent forth flames of fire and streams of molten lava.

Enceladus, they say, transfixed by Jove,
With blasted limbs came tumbling from above;
And when he fell, the avenging father drew
This flaming hill, and on his body threw.
As often as he turns his weary sides,
He shakes the solid isle, and smoke, the heavens hides.
DRYDEN, _AEneid_, BOOK III.

But beside the horrors of the "flaming hill" there was another danger
to which the Trojans were now exposed. Sicily was the land of the
terrible Cy'clops. These were fierce giants of immense size, with one