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CHAPTER I.

OPENS WITH LEAVE-TAKINO.

Nearly two thousand seven hundred years ago
— or somewhere about eight hundred years b.c. —
there dwelt a Phoenician sea-captain in one of the
eastern sea-ports of Greece — known at that period,
or soon after, as Hellas.

This captain was solid, square, bronzed, bluff,
and resolute, as all sea-captains are — or ought to
be — whether ancient or modern. He owned, as
well as commanded, one of those curious vessels
with one mast and a mighty square-sail, fifty oars
or so, double-banked, a dragon's tail in the stern
and a horse's head at the prow, in which the
Phoenicians of old and other mariners were wont
to drive an extensive and lucrative trade in the
Mediterranean; sometimes pushing their adven-
turous keels beyond the Pillars of Hercules
visiting the distant Cassiterid.es or Tin Isles, and
Albion, and even penetrating northward into the
Baltic, in search of tin, amber, gold, and what not.

One morning this captain, whose name was
Arkal, sauntered up from the harbour to his hut,
which stood on a conspicuous eminence over-
looking the bay. His hands were not thrust into
his pockets, because he had no pockets to put
them into — the simple tunic of the period being
destitute of such appendages. Indeed, the coarse
linen tunic referred to constituted the chief part
of his costume, the only other portions being
a pair of rude shoes on his feet, a red fez or
tarbouche on his bushy brown locks, and yards of
something wound round his lower limbs to protect
them from thorns on shore, as well as from the
rasping of cordage and cargo at sea.

At the door of his hut stood his pretty little
Greek wife, with a solid, square, bluff, and resolute,
but not yet bronzed, baby in her arms.



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