The place lay utterly still save for the murmuring of the water and the singing of a small yellowish bird that abounds in these islands.

At the end of an aisle of trees shone the sea, blue and calm as a sapphire of heaven.

I lay down upon the earth by the water.
Finding of India and rounding the earth! We seemed poor, weak men, but the thing was great, and I suppose the doers of a great thing are great.

East--west! Going west and yet east .-- The Jew in me had come from Palestine, and to Palestine perhaps from Arabia, and to Arabia--who knew ?--perhaps from that India! And much of the Spaniard had come from Carthage and from Phoenicia, old Tyre and Sidon, and Tyre and Sidon again from the east.

From the east and to the east again.