Every man slept where he sat, and considered himself lucky indeed if he could obtain room sufficient to stretch himself at full length.

Most slept sitting against bulwarks or other supports.

In the cabins, where the knights, their pages and squires, were placed, the crowding was of course less excessive, but even here the amount of space, which a subaltern travelling to India for the first time now-a-days would grumble at, was considered amply sufficient for half-a-dozen knights of distinction.

It was a week after sailing, when Cnut touched Cuthbert's arm as he came on deck one morning, and said,-- "Look, look, Cuthbert! that mountain standing up in the water has caught fire on the top.

Did you ever see such a thing ?" The soldiers crowded to the side of the vessel, in intense astonishment and no little awe.