On many other shores they set foot.  Most were fruitful and friendly; and they rested from their seeking, and repaired the ship, and took in such stores as they might gather during their sojourn.  Though often it befell that while they were still afar the wind wafted them the fragrance of rare spices so that their eyes brightened and their faces reddened with joyful anticipation, yet ever when they landed they found that not yet, not yet had they reached the island garden of their quest.  Men, too, of the same fashion as themselves they met with on shores far apart, but strange were these of aspect and speech and manner of life.  With them they tarried as long as they might, gaining some knowledge of their tongue, and revealing to them the true God and the Lord crucified.