he recked little of his life , and he set his ocean-paths wider than most of those men , good mariners though they were ; and there were few in the end who dared to go with him , save aelfheah the fatherless who was with him in all ventures until his last voyage.~ now on a time journeying far out into the open sea , being first becalmed in a thick mist , and after driven helpless by a mighty wind from the east , he espied some islands lying in the dawn , but he won not ever thereto for the winds changing swept him again far away , and only his strong fate saved him to see the black coasts of his abiding once again .