It was now about ten o'clock in the morning, and Caesar, finding the prospect so unfavorable in respect to the practicability of effecting a landing here, brought his fleet to anchor near the shore, but far enough from it to be safe from the missiles of the enemy.
[Sidenote: Caesar calls a council of officers.] Here he remained for several hours, to give time for all the vessels to join him.

Some of them had been delayed in the embarkation, or had made slower progress than the rest in crossing the Channel.

He called a council, too, of the superior officers of the army on board his own galley, and explained to them the plan which he now adopted for the landing.

About three o'clock in the afternoon he sent these officers back to their respective ships, and gave orders to make sail along the shore.

The anchors were raised and the fleet moved on, borne by the united impulse of the wind and the tide.