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 traveling to India for the first time nowadays 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.

From the top of a lofty and rugged hill, rising almost straight from the sea, flames were roaring up, smoke hung over the island, and stones were thrown into the air and rattled down the side of the hill, or fell into the sea with a splash.
"That is a fearsome sight," Cnut said, crossing himself.
"It looks as if it was the mouth of purgatory," exclaimed another, standing by.
Cuthbert himself was amazed, for the instruction he had received from Father Francis was of too slight a nature to include the story of volcanoes.