Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... to a sea that was like glass, and so clear it was that the gravel and the sand of thesea could be seen through it, and they saw no beasts or no monsters at all among therocks, but only the clean gravel and the grey sand. And through a great part of the day they were going over that sea, and it is very grand it was and beautiful. THE SEA Then they put out into an-LIKEAMIST other sea that was like a cloud, and itseemedtothem that it couldnot support themselves or thecurrach. Andafter that they saw below them walled duns and a beautiful country. And they saw a great ter-rible beast there, and he in a tree; and a herd of cattle round about the tree, and a man be-side it, having shield and spear and sword; and when he saw the great beast that was in the tree he made away on the moment. And the beast stretched out its neck and stooped his head to the back of the ox that was big-gest of the herd, and dragged it into the tree and had it eaten in the winking of an eye. On that the flocks and the herdsman made away; and when Maeldune and his people saw it there was greater dread again on them, for they thought they would never cross that sea without slipping down through it, and it as thin as a mist. But they got away over it after great danger. THE PELTING After that they found anWITH NUTS other island, and the sea rose up around it making great cliffs of water on every side. And when the people of that country saw them, they began screaming at them and saying 'It is they themselves! It is they themselves!' till they were out of breath, Then Maeldune and his men saw a great many people and great herds of cattle and of horses and a great many flocks of sheep. Then a womanbegan pelting them frombelow with great nutsthat stopped floating on the waves.