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They passed through the Straits of Messina one brilliant morning, the west wind still holding, the sea like a tray of broken sapphires, and Etna a cone of almost translucent purple against the flower-blue sky.
A nautilus fleet was going with them with sails set to the favouring wind, and away to starboard Sicilian fishing-boats putting out for the Lipari Islands dotted the sea.