The Cruise of the Branwen

FOOTSTEPS OF ODYSSEUS, ETC. woven raiment which the Phreacians had given him" ; and how, like the kindly, shrewd, Greek goddess that she is, she determined to succour one " so wary, so ready of wit and so prudent." The Grotto of the Naiads you may still discover on the tableland above the hills that slope so sharply to the south-west of the harbour, beyond the windmills that are clear on the horizon; and yet further behind us, as we lay in "the harbour of Phorcys, the ancient one of the sea," was the other harbour, Port Palis, on the west side of the island, just beneath the city and the palace where Odysseus dwelt. Nearer to Port Vathi itself, but off the main road into the island, is the rocky path by which the wanderer walked with Eumreus, the swine– herd, to the fountain Arethusa , near the rock called the Raven's Rock. ' ' ' ' A e 7rap KopaKo~ 7rETP!l €7T'L n KP1JV[J pe OVCT!]· You may see both to-day; and if you happen to be taking refuge here, as we were, from a sudden storm, you will realise not only a little of what that far-off home-coming meant to Laertes' son, but a great deal of the sea-lore of which the Odyssey is full in every page, the facts of Nature noted down by ancient Phrenician mariners, copied by Homer, and translated, well-nigh word for word, in the Pilot's Guide upon the table in your captain's chart-room. You see the double mountain ; the four harbours ; the three districts divided between herds of pigs and herds of goats and cultivated land; the 151