But in my opinion , the most remarkable of this famous company were two sons of the North Wind -LRB- airy youngsters , and of rather a blustering disposition -RRB- who had wings on their shoulders , and , in case of a calm , could puff out their cheeks , and blow almost as fresh a breeze as their father . I ought not to forget the prophets and conjurors , of whom there were several in the crew , and who could foretell what would happen to-morrow or the next day , or a hundred years hence , but were generally quite unconscious of what was passing at the moment . Jason appointed Tiphys to be helmsman because he was a star-gazer , and knew the points of the compass . Lynceus , on account of his sharp sight , was stationed as a look-out in the prow , where he saw a whole day 's sail ahead , but was rather apt to overlook things that lay directly under his nose . If the sea only happened to be deep enough , however , Lynceus could tell you exactly what kind of rocks or sands were at the bottom of it ; and he often cried out to his companions , that they were sailing over heaps of sunken treasure , which yet he was none the richer for beholding . To confess the truth , few people believed him when he said it . Well ! But when the Argonauts , as these fifty brave adventurers were called , had prepared everything for the voyage , an unforeseen difficulty threatened to end it before it was begun . The vessel , you must understand , was so long , and broad , and ponderous , that the united force of all the fifty was insufficient to shove her into the water . Hercules , I suppose , had not grown to his full strength , else he might have set her afloat as easily as a little boy launches his boat upon a puddle . But here were these fifty heroes , pushing , and straining , and growing red in the face , without making the Argo start an inch . At last , quite wearied out , they sat themselves down on the shore exceedingly disconsolate , and thinking that the vessel must be left to rot and fall in pieces , and that they must either swim across the sea or lose the Golden Fleece . All at once , Jason bethought himself of the galley 's miraculous figure-head . `` O , daughter of the Talking Oak , '' cried he , `` how shall we set to work to get our vessel into the water ? '' `` Seat yourselves , '' answered the image -LRB- for it had known what had ought to be done from the very first , and was only waiting for the question to be put -RRB- , -- `` seat yourselves , and handle your oars , and let Orpheus play upon his harp . '' Immediately the fifty heroes got on board , and seizing their oars , held them perpendicularly in the air , while Orpheus -LRB- who liked such a task far better than rowing -RRB- swept his fingers across the harp . At the first ringing note of the music , they felt the vessel stir . Orpheus thrummed away briskly , and the galley slid at once into the sea , dipping her prow so deeply that the figure-head drank the wave with its marvelous lips , and rising again as buoyant as a swan . The rowers plied their fifty oars ; the white foam boiled up before the prow ; the water gurgled and bubbled in their wake ; while Orpheus continued to play so lively a strain of music , that the vessel seemed to dance over the billows by way of keeping time to it . Thus triumphantly did the Argo sail out of the harbor , amidst the huzzas and good wishes of everybody except the wicked old Pelias , who stood on a promontory , scowling at her , and wishing that he could blow out of his lungs the tempest of wrath that was in his heart , and so sink the galley with all on board .
When they had sailed above fifty miles over the sea , Lynceus happened to cast his sharp eyes behind , and said that there was this bad-hearted king , still perched XXXXX the promontory , and scowling so gloomily that it looked like a black thunder-cloud in that quarter of the horizon .
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