He says that the great galley from this port which is called _Light of the East_ drifted up to the quay at the Place of Arms last night on her return voyage from Cyprus, filled with dead and with no living thing aboard her save the devil himself in a yellow robe and a many-hued head-dress like a cock's-comb with a red eye.

He swears that this fiend landed and that the mob set on him, whereon two, some say three, other devils clad in long black gowns appeared out of the water and drove them back.

Also, it seems that this same cock's-combed Satan stole a boat and rowed about the city afterward, but now none can find him, although they have got the boat." "Then they should be well satisfied," said Hugh, "since its owner has lost nothing but the hire, which with Satan at the oars is better than might be hoped.

Perhaps he was not there after all, Sir Geoffrey." "I know not, but at least the galley _Light of the East_ is there, for ever since the dawn they have been taking the dead out of her to bury them.

Of these they say things too terrible to repeat, for no doctor can tell of what sickness they died, never having seen its like.