Part 7 (1/2)
THE FOURTH EPISODE
HOW ULYSSES LOST HIS MERRY MEN AND CAME A WAIF TO CALYPSO WITH THE shi+NING HAIR
The crew sat round a fire of driftwood
There was shelter where they sat, in a natural alcove of rock, but outside the great winds thundered and the wrack flew before the stor roar filled the air
The faces of all the sailors wore a sullen look Hunger had begun to suck the colour from their cheeks, their eyes were proour
A rude shelter of sailcloth and various _debris_ that was scattered about seemed to show that for some time, at least, they had made their home in this place where the winds did not co in low, discontented tones a themselves
”A whole month,” said Eurylochus, ”a whole month have we been sea bound in this accursed island I am sick of islands!”
”Never have we put to shore without so,” said another ”Oh, for Ithaca!”
”I doubt we shall ever see Ithaca again,” said a third ”We will be wanderers till we die; that is what I think And this place is like to be the grave of all of us I never kneind so furious to blow so long We should sink in an hour did we but put out”
”There is only food for one day more, and that sparse,” said Eurylochus ”For th is all gone from me I could not er burn the sinews and dry the blood Brown meat and red wine! I could fill my belly till the skin cracked!”
”The rich brown meat, mate! Dost mind the soft kids on Circe's island?
By Zeus, I can taste them now!”
”Ay and the fat cows, roast till the blood ran out of them like liquid life”
”I can even s ry man”
”Would that we had never left Circe 'Twas a kind queen, irls were kindly in love also”
”To Hades with the girls!” said Eurylochus ”Thy talk of meat makes me heave with desire”
He looked round cautiously before he continued
”Friends,” he said in a low, rapid whisper, ”tellto starve in the raze in the pastures above?”
”Never did I see such cattle,” answered another hungry wight ”Gods!
they would s”
”And yet pain and sickness is all over us, and we lust for food till we know not e do!”
”Captain's orders!”