All the night they struggled with the oars and on the day after, they landed the ship at an unknown land. Ulysses himself with 12 friends went forth into the land that they wished to explore. Advancing a little from the beach, they came to an enormous cave. Even if they knew they were not doing this without danger, nevertheless they entered the cave. They might have made with it, they noticed a large supply of milk in enormous vessels. While they marveled at who could live in this place, the heard a terrible sound, and at the entrance they saw a horrible monster, with a human appearance and shape but larger than the most enormous of bodies. And with that, they could see the monster to have merely one eye placed in the middle of his forehead, and they knew this to be one of the Cyclopes of which they heard long ago.
The Cyclopes was a shepherd who lived on the island Sicily and particularly on Aeten Mountain. There, Vulcan, protector of blacksmiths and inventor of fire, to whom the Cyclopes were slaves, had his shop. They watched the monster with one of the sailors, frightened throughly they fled into an interior part of the cave, and were compelled to hide themselves. Polyphemus (thus in fact what the Cyclopes was called) knowing the humans to be hiding in the interior parts of the cave with one another, bellowed a loud call. Without delay he snatched up and killed two unfortunate humans. Then he devoured greedily the flesh of them. He seized the spirits of the Greeks with such terror that , putting away all signs of hope, presently they might expect death. He next ate two **** killed elsewhere. Thereafter, closing the entrance with an enormous boulder, he departed from the cave and went to the cattle at the mountains.
Towards the evening Polyphemus returned into the cave. Thereafter Ulysses gave wine to the monster in a giant cup. Before this the Cyclopes had never tasted wine. Again and again he ordered his cup to be filled. When he inquired for what name Ulysses was called, he responded: " I am nobody." Polyphemus, when he heard this, he arranged thus: " For so much kindness, I shall eat you last of all." After a short time the monster was overwhelmed by sleep.
Then Ulysses and his men encircled Polyphemus; they then pierced his eye with a sharpened stake. He let out so much shouts that the rest of the Cyclopes from all sides came to the cave. When they looked for what force had done this, he responded: " Nobody did it!" The Cyclopes departed led to believe he was insane. Following this time Polyphemus moved the boulder which sent the cattle from the cave. Then the Greeks fled from the horrible cave by means of their cunning trick and safely hastened to the ship.