# The story of my house

Author: Ellwanger, George H. (George Herman), 1848-1906

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69961

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## Summary

guests of the King of Corfu after dinner. He relates how he was on his way home from Troy, and was doubling Cape St. Angelo, when a storm from the north met his fleet and drove it from its course. After sailing southward for nine days, he sighted land and made for it, as the fresh-water supply was exhausted. The crews enjoyed the luxury of a meal on shore, and then began to wonder where they were. So Ulysses chose two good men, adding a herald with a flag of truce, a necessary precaution in those times when strangers were enemies, as a matter of course. These men were to inquire who the inhabitants of the land were. “The lotus-eaters received them kindly and gave them lotus to eat. As soo...

## Chapters

- [Book ix, v. 82, etc.): Ulysses is recounting his adventures to the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-my-house-69961/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Volume I, worth a hundred times their cost. Fortunately, they had](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-my-house-69961/chapters/2/index.md)