waking with the tumult, doubted much whether I should not throw
myself into the sea and so die. But I endured, thinking it better
to live. Only I veiled my face and so lay still while the ships
drave before the winds, till we came again to the island of
AEolus. Then we landed, and fetched water, and ate our meal by the
side of our ships. And when our meal was ended, I took a herald
and one of my company, and went to the palace of the King, and
found him feasting with his wife and children, and I sat down on
the threshold. Much did they wonder to see me, saying, 'What evil
power has hindered thee, that thou didst not reach thy country and
home?'

"Then I answered: 'Blame not me, but the evil counsels of my
comrades, and sleep, which mastered me to my hurt. But do ye help
me again.'

"But he said, 'Begone! we may not help him whom the gods hate; and
hated of them thou surely art.'

"So AEolus sent me away. Then again we launched our ships and set
forth, toiling wearily at the oars, and sad at heart.

"Six days we rowed, nor rested at night; and on the seventh we
came to Lamos [Footnote: La'-mos.], which was a city of the
Laestrygons, in whose land the night is as the day, so that a man
might earn double wages, if only he wanted not sleep. There was a
fair haven with cliffs about it, and a narrow mouth with great
rocks on either side. And within are no waves.

"Now I made fast my ship to the rocks that were without, but the