Read the excerpt from Part 3 of The Odyssey by Homer. They scrambled to their places by the rowlocks and all in line dipped oars in the gray sea. But soon an offshore breeze blew to our liking— a canvas-bellying breeze, a lusty shipmate sent by the singing nymph with sunbright hair. So we made fast the braces, and we rested, letting the wind and steersman work the ship. Based on the excerpt, readers can conclude that Odysseus (the speaker)