Gisgo survives the attack on the ship because Time Patrol intervention prevents the Exaltationists from shooting him in the water while he clings to his oar. But the Patrol knew when and where to intervene because Gisgo had survived to tell his story to Everard. The action of this story fits entirely inside circular causation within a single timeline.
Pum saved Everard's life when the latter was attacked by an Exaltationist assassin. Pum advised Everard to make contact with Sarai of the palace staff. Everard enquired about any exotic visitors to the court of Hiram's father, Abibaal. Sarai remembered that the under-groom, Jantin-hamu's, father, Bomilcar, had worked in the palace then. Bomilcar described the Sinim, who sound like Exaltationists, but said that they had died in a storm at sea. Pum tracked down Gisgo, who had survived the shipwreck, then volunteered to join the Patrol - although he did not know about the Patrol yet. Pum, placed in the doomed ship twenty six years earlier, informed a waiting Patrol squadron of the Exaltationist attack by radio. Thus, forty Patrol cycles were able to enclose seven Exaltationist cycles at the moment of the attack.
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