Book 1. The Earth And The Sea Are Always Giving Up Their Secrets
Book 1. The Earth And The Sea Are Always Giving Up Their Secrets - Chapter 1. The Nameless Bay
_ BOOK I. THE EARTH AND THE SEA ARE ALWAYS GIVING UP THEIR SECRETS
CHAPTER I. THE NAMELESS BAY
In the noon of a September day in the year of our dear Lord 1395, a merchant vessel nodded sleepily upon the gentle swells of warm water flowing in upon the Syrian coast. A modern seafarer, looking from the deck of one of the Messagerie steamers now plying the same line of trade, would regard her curiously, thankful to the calm which held her while he slaked his wonder, yet more thankful that he was not of her passage.
She could not have exceeded a hundred tons burthen. At the bow and stern she was decked, and those quarters were fairly raised. Amidship she was low and open, and pierced for twenty oars, ten to a side, all swaying listlessly from the narrow ports in which they were hung. Sometimes they knocked against each

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