expected nothing elee, for he that should do it would imagine he had acquired honour. This Saracen who had saved me from drowning would not u quit hold of me, but cried out to them, The king's cousin ! the king's cousin !" I felt the knife at my throat, and had already cast myself on my knees on the ground ; but God delivered me from this peril by the aid of the poor Saracen, who led me to the castle where the Saracen chiefs were assembled. When I was in their presence, they took off my coat of mail ; and from pity, seeing me so very ill, they flung over me one of my own scarlet coverlids, lined with minever, which my lady-mother had given me. Another brought me a white leathern girdle, with which I girthed my coverlid around me. One of the Saracen knights gave me a small cap, which I put on my head; but I soon began to tremble, so that my teeth chattered, as well from the fright I had had as from my disorder. On my complaining of thirst, they brought me some water in a pot ; but I had no sooner put it to my mouth, and began drinking, than it ran back through my nostrils. God knows what a pitiful state I was in ; for I looked for death rather than life, having an imposthume in my throat When my attendants saw the water run thus through my nostrils, they began to weep and to be very sorrowful. . The Saracen who had saved me asked my people why they wept ; they gave him to understand, that I was nearly dead, from an imposthume in the throat which was choking me. The good Saracen, having always great compassion for me, went to tell this to one of the Saracen knights, who bade him to be comforted, for that he would give me something to drink that should cure me in two days. This he did ; and I was soon well, through God's grace, and the beverage which the Saracen knight gave me. Soon after my recovery, the admiral of the sultan's galleys sent for me, and demanded if I were cousin to the king, as it was said. I told him I was not, and related why it had been reported, and that one of my mariners had advised it through fear of the Saracens in the galleys, for that otherwise they would put us to death. The admiral replied, that I had been very well advised, or we should have been all murdered