Chapter 19 PRISONERS

ONE day, after cruising along the coast inside the island of Eub?a or Negropont, the Misericordia entered the Gulf of Zeitouni, the Sinus Maliacus of the ancients. When they were nearly at the head of the gulf Horace asked Captain Martyn to let him go ashore to a little village at the water's edge to get some vegetables and fruit, of which the supp