Some Details In Tyre

"Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks."

Warm, windless weather;

creaking, splashing sweeps;

coxswain's drumbeat;

blue wavelets, glittering, chuckling and swirling;

dazzling water blurring sight;

"...trade through the known world..." (p. 230);

multi-storey houses of stone or cedar;

bustling piers;

list descriptions of men and their activities;

Tyrian dyes;

rolling sounds;

overwhelming vitality;

crippled beggars;

ancient Eastern smells.

There is more.