Chapter 21 No.21

"Pronounce what sea, what shore is this?

The gulf, the rock of Salamis?"

Byron.

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The adventurers had now been twenty-three days out of sight of land, all of which time, with the exception of a few very immaterial changes in the wind, and a day or two of calms, they had been steadily advancing toward the west, with a southern variat