arise, and hurrying back they just reached the ship as the sailors were lifting the anchor, and in the haste and confusion many lost their places, and were not as comfortable during the balance of their voyage as at the outset. They were wiser, however, than the fourth party; these latter stayed so long upon the island and tasted so deeply of its pleasures, that they allowed the ship's bell of warning to sound unheeded.
Said they, " The sails are still to be set; we may enjoy ourselves a few minutes more. Again the bell sounded, and still they lingered, thinking, " The captain will not sail without us." So they remained on shore until they saw the ship moving; then in wild haste they swain after it and scrambled up the sides, but the bruises and injuries which they encountered in so doing were not healed during the remainder of the voyage.
But, alas, for the fifth party. They ate and drank so deeply that they did not even hear the bell, and when the ship started they were left behind. Then the wild beasts hid in the thickets made of them a prey, and they who escaped this evil, perished from the poison of surfeit.