A.D. 1191. betoen of the kixg of fbance feom acbe. 249 first-born son, whom thou didst beget ; cut off his head and keep it in thy possession. And whensoever thou shalt wish to vanquish thine enemy, or to lay waste his lands, let the features of the head so cut off be disclosed, and let them look upon thy enemy or his lands, and immediately they shall be destroyed ; and when thou shalt wish to cease so to do, let the features be covered up again, and tribulation will cease ;" which was accordingly done. Now, a considerable time after this, the knight married a wife, who often made enquiry of him, by what art or device he thus destroyed his enemies without arms and without an army ; however, he was unwilling to tell her, but rebuked her, and made her hold her peace. But it so happened, that one day, when the knight was away from home, she approached a chest, in which she hoped to find this secret of her lord, by means of which he wrought such mischiefs, and accordingly found in the chest this abominable head ; on which she immediately ran away, and threw it into the gulf of Satalia. The mariners have a story that whenever this head lies with the face upwards, the gulf is in such a state of commotion that no ship can possibly cross it ; but when the head lies with the face downwards, then a ship can pass over. " Let the Jew Apella believe this, I will not."60 There is also another wonderful thing that takes place once a month in every year. It seems as though a black dragon of vast size comes in the clouds of heaven, and plunges his head into the gulf of Satalia, and sucks up the water, drawing it up with such violence, that if any ship should chance to be there, even though it should be laden, it is drawn up and carried aloft. It is therefore necessary for those who wish to avoid this peril, as soon as they have seen the monster, immediately to make a great tumult and raise loud cries, beating pieces of wood together, in order that on hearing the noise the dragon may be driven away from them. We, however, affirm that this is not a dragon, but the heat of the sun, that attracts to itself the waters of the sea.el After the king of France had left the Isles of Tse, he passed near a great mountain, on the summit of which is situate the city of Patara, upon which Saint Nicholas was born, and where he lived for a long time. He next passed near a very lofty mountain, Turkia by name, which divides the territory 60 61 From Juvenal. He evidently alludes to waterspouts, and the method of breaking them by means of sound.