A ship went out on the night sea with its sail full of wind. It was the ship of a boy who had never left Ithaca.
At the steering oar was Athena in the shape of Mentor. Telemachus sat at the prow, and he did not know where to go for word of his father.
When day broke, sand dunes came into view. It was Pylos, and on the shore thousands of people were slaughtering cattle.