So they came, Valley-born, valley-nurtured Came to the tideway The jetties, the anchorage, The salt wind piping, Snoring in Equinox, By ships at anchor, By quays tormented, Storm-bitten streets; Came to the Haven Crying, "Ah, shelter us, The strayed ambassadors, Love's lost legation On a comfortless coast!

Several sailors of the Ebba are engaged in landing bales and stores from the interior of the tug, which lays alongside a little stone jetty.

As I pass the jetty I notice that the tug is moored in its accustomed place.

I was glad to find the return meridian distance between Port Phillip and Sydney agree with the going one, placing the jetty at William's Town 6 degrees 19 minutes 14 seconds west of Fort Macquarie.

His eyes gleam, his face is flushed, and he is all eagerness to reach the jetty.

A Roman priest, black as the top of a stove, strode down the jetty toward them.