Heracles was hurt by the stones. And then the monster beheld
the cup of Helios, and he began to hurl stones at the golden
thing, and it seemed that he might sink it in the sea, and leave
Heracles without a way of getting from the island. Heracles took
up his bow and he shot arrow after arrow at the monster, and he
left him dead in the deep grass of the pastures.
Then he rounded up the red cattle, the bulls and the cows, and he
drove them down to the shore and into the golden cup of Helios
where the bull of Minos stayed. Then back across the Stream of
Ocean the cup floated, and the bull of Crete and the cattle of
Geryoneus were brought past Sicily and through the straits called
the Hellespont. To Thrace, that savage land, they came. Then
Heracles took the cattle out, and the cup of Helios sank in the
sea. Through the wild lands of Thrace he drove the herd of
Geryoneus and the bull of Minos, and he came into Mycenae once
more.
But he did not stay to speak with Eurystheus. He started off to
find the Garden of the Hesperides, the Daughters of the
Evening Land. Long did he search, but he found no one who could
tell him where the garden was. And at last he went to Chiron on
the Mountain Pelion, and Chiron told Heracles what journey he
would have to make to come to the Hesperides, the Daughters of
the Evening Land.
Far did Heracles journey; weary he was when he came to where
Atlas stood, bearing the sky upon his weary shoulders.
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