Then Thetis and her nymphs sank down to their coral caves beneath the sea, and their gardens of green and purple, where live flowers bloom all the year round; while the heroes went on rejoicing, yet dreading what might come next.
After that they rowed on steadily for many a weary day, till they saw a long high island, and beyond it a mountain land.

And they searched till they found a harbour, and there rowed boldly in.

But after awhile they stopped, and wondered, for there stood a great city on the shore, and temples and walls and gardens, and castles high in air upon the cliffs.
And on either side they saw a harbour, with a narrow mouth, but wide within; and black ships without number, high and dry upon the shore.
Then Ancaios, the wise helmsman, spoke, 'What new wonder is this?
I know all isles, and harbours, and the windings of all seas; and this should be Corcyra, where a few wild goat-herds dwell.

But whence come these new harbours and vast works of polished stone ?' But Jason said, 'They can be no savage people.

We will go in and take our chance.' So they rowed into the harbour, among a thousand black-beaked ships, each larger far than _Argo_, toward a quay of polished stone.