pine. Of these he felled twenty, and lopped them and worked them
by the line. Then the goddess brought him an auger, and he made
holes in the logs and joined them with pegs. And he made decks and
side planking also; also a mast and a yard, and a rudder wherewith
to turn the raft. And he fenced it about with a bulwark of willow
twigs against the waves. The sails Calypso wove, and Ulysses
fitted them with braces and halyards and sheets. Last of all he
pushed the raft down to the sea with levers.

On the fourth day all was finished, and on the fifth day he
departed. And Calypso gave him goodly garments, and a skin of
wine, and a skin of water, and rich food in a bag of leather. She
sent also a fair wind blowing behind, and Ulysses set his sails
and proceeded joyfully on his way; nor did he sleep, but watched
the stars, the Pleiades [Footnote: Plei'-a-des.] and Bootes
[Footnote: Bo-o'-tes.], and the Bear, which turneth ever in one
place, watching Orion.[Footnote: O-ri'-on.] For Calypso had said
to him, "Keep the Bear ever on thy left as thou passest over the
sea."

Seventeen days he sailed; and on the eighteenth day appeared the
shadowy hills of the island of the Phaeacians. [Footnote: Phae-a'-
ci-ans.] But now Poseidon, coming back from feasting with the
Ethiopians, spied him as he sailed, and it angered him to the
heart. He shook his head, and spake to himself, saying: "Verily,
the gods must have changed their purpose concerning Ulysses while
I was absent among the Ethiopians; and now he is nigh to the
island of the Phaeacians, and if he reach it, he will escape from
his woes. Yet even now I will send him far enough on a way of
trouble."