"And when he met us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene"Mitylene": (mit uh LEE neh). "The wealthy chief city of Lesbos, an island in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Asia Minor" (Nelsons p. 719). "The ship evidently sailed each day and anchored each night. The reason, Ramsay explained, 'lies in the wind'. During the Aegean summer 'it generally blows from the north, beginning at. very early hour in the morning'. Then 'in the late afternoon it dies away' and 'at sunset there is. dead calm'" (Stott p. 322).

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