Chapter 15
PAST THE HOUSE OF SILENCENow it was in the tenth hour of that day, that we put off in the
raft; and surely we found the paddles to go very easy and with
somewhat of balance in the rests which I had set up, as you do
mind; and the raft to go forward with not overmuch of labour; so
that we stood, the Maid to the fore paddle and I did be to the
hinder one, and we pusht very steady upon the paddles, and had the
raft presently to a speed something less than we should walk over
the rough way of the Land.
And about the twelfth hour we stopt and eat and drunk, and went
on again with our easy labouring; and truly, when that we gat set
to the movement, we scarce to wot that we did aught more than rock
something fore and back upon our feet; and so the hours to pass,
and we to
