The great cauldron, too, holds but part of the funeral feast, and that was mine.

Aye, fetch it.

There are other things also which may be found, and you can take of them." But we had no need to search further, for what we had found last night was more than enough.

We brought the cauldron aft, and some of the oatcake; and as we ate, first grew and darkened a long blue line which crossed the sea to the eastward, and then came stray airs which lifted the loose folds of the sail uselessly.
Bertric and I went forward and got out two of the ship's long oars, and pulled her head round to the southward.

The water dimpled alongside of us and the sail filled as the breeze came.