ten in the morning
Lay your course south-east half east from the Campanella . If the weather is what it should be in late summer you will have a fresh breeze on the starboard quarter from ten in the morning till four or five o'clock in the afternoon . Sail straight across the wide gulf of Salerno , and when you are over give the Licosa Point a wide berth , for the water is shallow and there are reefs along shore . Moreover there is no light on Licosa Point , and many a good ship has gone to pieces there in dark winter nights when the surf is rolling in . If the wind holds you may run on to Palinuro in a long day before the evening calm comes on , and the water turns oily and full of pink and green and violet streaks , and the sun settles down in the north-west .