After a day's sailing they perceived land on their right, and gave a shout of joy at the thought that they had arrived at the entrance of the straits.

At nightfall they dropped anchor.
"What are you looking at, Siegbert ?" Edmund asked, seeing the jarl looking thoughtfully at the anchor-chain as the ship swung round.
"I am thinking," the jarl said, "that we must have made some error.

Do you not see that she rides, just as we were sailing, with her head to the north-east?
That shows that the current is against us." "Assuredly it does," Edmund said; "but the current is a very slack one, for the ropes are not tight." "But that agrees not," Siegbert said, "with what I have been told.

In the first place, this channel points to the northeast, whereas, as I have heard, the straits into the Mediterranean run due east.

In the next place, those who have been through have told me that there are no tides as in the northern seas, but that the current runs ever like a river to the east." "If that be so," Edmund said, "we must have mistaken our way, for here what current there is runs to the west.