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and to direct me in my course; and he told me that after many travels and dangers, I should at last recover my country, but would not tell me the certain time of my return: and showing me the islands adjoining, which were five in number, and a sixth a little further off, he said, Those nearest are the islands of the ungodly, which you see burning all in a light fire, but the other sixth is the island of dreams, and beyond that is the island of Calypso,Ogygia, an island between the Phœnician and Syrian seas in which Calypso, a sea-nymph, the daughter of Oceanus and Thetis, being Queen, entertained Ulysses in his travels, and falling in love with him detained him with her seven years. which you cannot see from hence. When you are past these, you shall come into the great continent, over against your own country, where you shall suffer many afflictions, and pass through many nations, and meet with men of inhuman conditions, and at length attain to the other continent.