The Story of the Golden Fleece
now they were within the black jaws of the rocks, the water boiling round them, and so dark it was that they could see the stars. But the oarsmen could not see the daylight behind them, and the steersman could not see the daylight in front. Then the great tide rushed in between the rocks like a rushing river, and lifted the ship as if it were lifted by a hand, and through the strait she passed like a bird, and the rocks clashed, and only broke the carved wood of the ship’s stern. And the ship reeled in the seething sea beyond, and all the men of Jason bowed their heads over their oars, half dead with the fierce rowing.
Then they set all sail, and the ship sped merrily on, past the shores of the inner sea, past bays and towns, and river
62
