supposed a valuable treasure to be concealed.
But in each of these stout bags, King
the ruler of the winds, had tied up a tempest,
and had given it to Ulysses to keep, in order that
he might be sure of a favorable passage home-
ward to Ithaca; and when the strings were
loosened, forth rushed the whistling blasts, like
air out of a blown bladder, whitening the sea
with foam, and scattering the vessels nobody
could tell whither.

Immediately after escaping from this peril, a
still greater one had befallen him. Scudding be-
fore the hurricane, he reached a place, which, as he
afterwards found, was called Laestrygonia, where
some monstrous giants had eaten up many of
his companions, and had sunk every one of his
vessels, except that in which he himself sailed,
by flinging great masses of rock at them, from
the cliffs along the shore. After going through
such troubles as these, you cannot wonder that
King Ulysses was glad to moor his tempest-
beaten bark in a quiet cove of the green island,
which I began with telling you about. But he
had encountered so many dangers from giants,
and one-eyed Cyclopes, and monsters of the sea

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