Clear of the strait of Scylla, the ship soon met an island. It was Thrinacia where the cattle of the sun god Helios live, and Tiresias and Circe had both said to beware of this place.
Odysseus wanted to sail past it. But his men feared another disaster on a night sea, and in the end they landed, swearing never to lay a hand on the cattle.
For some days they lived on the provisions Circe had given. But the wind stayed against them and a month shut them in, and the food dwindled and began to show the bottom of the sack.