Captains Log

We arrived two days ago on this island from Telepyus, kingdom of the Laestrygonians with heavy pumps, grieving for the loss of our dear comrades. In our sorrow we send on the rim for two days and two nights, wailing and emit at the pain and anguish we snarl for our preoccupied companions. hardly at present I feel that I fork up to move for the sake of my rest crew, otherwise I believe we will stay here forever, wallowing in our grief. I am going to leave the manpower here composition clan false alone to explore, it would be pointless trying to abbreviate a leak the men move now.Half of the crew and myself argon now sit on the beach, awaiting the return of the other half(a) of the crew. After my last accounting entry I intend off and came to a rocky height and as I became close to the fleet of it I could see a defame of reddish smoke rising, as I got closer and closer to the top I saw that it was coming from the chimney of a house in the distance. I was unsure o f how I felt at the sight, I was left field in two minds, whether to press on forwards and investigate or non.After some deep thought I made the purpose n to go posterior to the shore and try to find some food on the counseling, the welfare of my men must come first, I would then split the men in to two halves and leave half on the shore and the I would send the other half to explore the island I think that it is best to only permit half go incase of any danger, that way if any crew are helpless it will only be half or less. I cannot lay on the line loosing any more crew aft(prenominal)ward what happened with Antiphates and the daphnia.On my way back down the Gods must present been in my favour because I came across I stag, which I publicaged to kill and although it was a brute of a thing I could just manage to put it everyplace my shoulder and drag it back to the shore where I greeted my men warmly and we ate the meal. The meal did reckon to boost their morale, whic h is what I had hoped I hoped that it might encourage them that we were going to be fine. After we ate we slept and this morning half of the men set off to explore light-emitting diode by Eurylochus.Eurylochus returned alone, claiming that the rest of the men were turned into pigs by a witch named Circe. He told me that when he and his men had reached the Palace of Circe they had comprehend a beautiful voice singing while working on a loom, one man had said that whoever was inside must engender been either a Goddess or woman, she called out to them and invited them inside. only when Eurylochus, being a very suspicious man, suspected a trap and did not go in, so Polites led the men and in their innocence they followed him inside.Then he told me that the men had been ply and given drinks of yellow honey with Pramnian wine which she canted with a noxious drug. The men were then herded into a pigsty and fed acorns and forest nuts, they grunted like pigs scarce their minds were as human as before, save with no memory of their native land because of the drug. After hearing this in classifyigence activity I threw my steel in its silver scabbard over my shoulder and grabbed my succumb and told Eurylochus to take me back with him by the selfsame(prenominal) way he had come.But he threw his arms around my knees and begged me to let him stay where he was, so I let him stay because if I had pursued my order, it may own caused a mutiny because he would turn over disobeyed my order making me appearance like a bighearted leader, or and the rest of the crew may have been swayed to the point of view that I had bad judgement , aft(prenominal) all my judgement wasnt always perfect, I hadnt been very cautious where the genus Cyclopes and Laestrygonians had been concerned and perhaps it may have been better if I had have been. So I let him stay and kept up a better image rather than risk sounding unkind and uncompassionate.But although Eurylochus will no be comin g with me I still have to go on because I cannot loose any more men, so I am going on alone to retrieve my comrades, Ill set off now. I have just returned back to the beach after my encounter with Circe. Soon after leaving the shore I was affect to meet up with Hermes, who told me that I should eat a special herbaceous plantaceous plant called Moly which would stop Circes powers affecting me. He then instructed me to go on to the castle and accept Circes offerings, only if when she strikes me with her stick I should rush at her with look to kill her and she will beg for me to go to her bed.He said that if I slept with her she might dress me of my courage and manhood so I should call for her to swear an oath before hand so that she wouldnt, and that after I had been in bed with her she would let my men go. I ate the herb and then went on to the palace and when I got outside I called to her and she let me in and fed me and then she offered me a goblet of yellow looking honeyed w ine, but I knew that it was drugged, and just like Hermes had told me I drank it and it had no effect thanks to the Moly.Next she hit me with her stick and shouted off to the pigsty and lie down with your friends, so I snatched up my sword and rushed at her as if I meant to kill her, she slipped beneath my blade, grabbed my knees and raid into tears. She then asked me who I was and where I came from but before I could attend she said that I must be Odysseus because Hermes had once told her that a man named Odysseus would come to her palace and suffer no effects from her drug. She then asked me to unify her in her bed and get to self-confidence each other.I could not deny a Goddess, and it was for the sake of my crew, Hermes had told me to accept this offer and although I could not help but think astir(predicate) my wife in Ithaca I knew that to get back home to her I would have to sleep with Circe, so I followed her to her bed, but not before getting her to swear a solemn oath that while they were in bed she should not rob me of my courage and manhood. After I had slept with Circe she told me to return to the shore and collect my men and bring them back to the palace so she could offer them food, drink and wise to(p) clothes, and she let the men out of the sty and turned them back.I got to the shore and told my men the good news, that their friends were now human again and that we all had a feast waiting for us at Circes palace. But Eurylochus did not take this as good news he told the men not to trust me and said that I had almost cost them their lives before and that it was my fault we had lost so many men before as it was me who always led the men into danger, like when I made the men go into the Cyclops cave and stay there, and when I lost the men on the pop of the Laestrygonians.I was so enraged by his defiant outburst I considered drawing my sword and lopping his head off there and then but my men held me back and calmed me down. They said that t hey would come with me and Eurylochus could stay with the ship if he didnt want to come, however he came anyway, if only through fear but we all knew that he was terrified of Circes Palace too. So now we are all going ahead to Circes Palace, although my blood is still boiling over what Eurylochus said.I have just had the most difficult day of my excursion so far, for after I collected my men and took them to the Palace of Circe, after some persuasion we when to the Palace where the two partied of men met and cried in ecstasy at the sight of each other and we stayed there and ate and drank and bathed and rest for a whole year. It was so relieving to be able to rest and wind off that I didnt realise that wed stayed that long, until the men came to me today and reminded me that we should be on our way because they wanted to get home.I felt like a bad leader for getting so engrossed with this lifestyle that I forgot about their feelings and the time. We feasted for the rest of the da y and then as night fell I went to Circe and clasped her knees in supplication and I told her what I felt and how the men felt and asked her to keep the promise she had once made me about sending me home.That is when she told me this odious news to get home I must first go down to the underworld, into the Halls of Hades and consult the soul of Teiresias, who was the only person who could sound out me the way home. These terrible words struck me hard and my heart sank, I felt like I had no more reasons for living. But If I ever wanted to return home I had to do this, it was heart breaking but it had to be done. What would be worse was that I would have to tell the crew.I found out from Circe that I would have to set up my mast and wait for the north wind to blow my ship on its way, she said I would come to a wild coast and Persephones Grove, I should go to the specific place she stated then dig a trench as long and wide as a mans forearm, I should go round the trench and pour offer ings to the dead and after that I should sprinkle white barley and begin my prayers and make Teiresias a divert offering of a the finest jet black sheep of my flock. Then there would be more sacrifices of a ewe and ram and pray some more until I would be able to talk to Teiresias who could give me a route home.As if this news hadnt been hard enough I now had to tell my comrades the same thing and get them to agree. Then one of the younger men who had gotten rum last night herd me calling the men to wake up and he leapt up and fell off the roof and broke his neck and went straight to Hades. Then I broke the news to the men, it was so had to tell them but I had to do it or we will never be able to return to our beloved homes. When I told them they were broken hearted and deeply stir up and Circe put the animals for the sacrifice on the ship for me. The men have concord to go on the next step of our journey home I just hope that we will prevail.