Alexander's ship made port around midday on a warm, summer noon, closing in towards a large crescent shaped bay made of white shimmering concrete floors and robust wooden quays.
From his deck, he found the place to be filled with numerous ships of various sizes- tall, square-rigged merchant vessels, smaller colorful fishing boats, and even some medium sized triremes and quadrimes belonging to slavers and raiders were currently docked, rocking gently with the ebb and flow of the waters, their huge masts towering overhead like giant trees in a forest of sails and rigging.
All these ships were being attended to by a small army of hurried laborers, porters and dockworkers, shouting all kinds of orders and even crude curses as they loaded and unloaded the goods.