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Then the sailor men , being much afraid , would have put about and run for the mouth of Cydnus again , but could not because of the wildness of the sea . All that night it blew furiously , and by dawn our mast was carried away , and we rolled helplessly in the trough of the great waves . But I sat wrapped in a cloak , little heeding ; and because I showed no fear the sailors cried out that I was a wizard , and sought to cast me into the sea , but the captain would not . At dawn the wind slackened , but ere noon it once more blew in terrible fury , and at the fourth hour from noon we came in sight of the rocky coast of that cape in the island of Cyprus which is called Dinaretum , where is a mountain named Olympus , and thither-wards we drifted swiftly . Then , when the sailors saw the terrible rocks , and how the great waves that smote on them spouted up in foam , once more they grew much afraid , and cried out in their fear . For , seeing that I still sat unmoved , they swore that I certainly was a wizard , and came to cast me forth as a sacrifice to the Gods of the sea . And this time the captain was over-ruled , and said nothing .