Still on the Nile - not yet out at sea - Thoas' crew, led by the wrathful Cyprian, Megacles, begins to mutiny:
"They stirred uneasily on the benches, growling, reaching for the knives at their belts, and some glared at Thoas and some at Megacles." (p. 142)
Ok. What do the Andersonian elements do on such an occasion? In the very next sentence:
"The sun wavered in its veil of heat, and the wind mounted, and the ship drifted idly on the river." (ibid.)
The ship drifts because the men have stopped rowing and the wind mounts as their hostility does. We can usually count on a one-to-one correspondence between wind and human activity. There follows another Andersonian fight scene, the second in this story, although this one we are not going to summarize here! (Read it, though.)
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