28.
A peace being established by these proceedings four days after we had come into
Britain, the
eighteen ships, to which reference has been made above, and which conveyed the
cavalry, set sail from the upper port with a gentle gale, when, however, they
were approaching Britain and were
seen from the camp, so great a storm suddenly arose that none of them could
maintain their course at sea; and some were taken back to the same port from
which they had started;-others, to their great danger, were driven to the lower
part of the island, nearer to the west; which, however, after having cast
anchor, as they were getting filled with water, put out to sea through necessity
in a stormy night, and made for the continent.
C. Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library.
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