1t4 THE FOURTH VOYAGE OF

tating upon my case, lo, a vessel passed along
in the midst of the roaring sea agitated with
waves. So I took in my hand a white gar-
ment of the clothes of the dead, and tied it to
a staff, and ran with it along the sea-shore,
making a sign to the people with that gar-
ment, until they happened to look, and saw
me upon. the summit of the mountain. They
therefore approached me, and heard my voice,
and sent me a boat in which was a party of
men from the ship; and when they drew near
to me they said to me, “Who art thou, and
what is the reason of thy sitting in this place,
and how didst thou arrive at this mountain; for
in our lives we have never seen any one who
hath come unto it?” So I answered them, “I
am a merchant. The vessel that I was in was
wrecked, and I got upon a plank, together with
my things, and God facilitated my landing at
this place, with my things, by means of my
exertion and my skill, after severe toil.” They
therefore took me with them in the boat, and
embarked all that I had taken from the cavern,
tied up in the garments and grave-clothes, and
they proceeded with me until they took me up
into the ship, to the master, and all my things
with me. And the master said to me, ‘O