Excerpt from The Dread and Fear of Kings
Alexis, leaning upon the railing that partly surrounded the upper deck, watched the coast of Sardinia vanish in the southwest. He breathed a deep sigh of relief, for he had grown weary of the ship, and now no more ports lay between him and Ostia, the port of Rome. Since leaving Athens, he had once suffered the dangers and inconveniences of shipwreck. While passing through the straits of Messina, the vessel in which he now sailed had been injured, necessitating slow progress. After several days of dead calm on the Tyrrhenian Sea, contrary winds had forced them to put in at Sardinia, and the unpleasantness of the journey had recently received its finishing touch by the addition of Roman soldiers who had embarked at the Sardinian port.
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