Ian gathered and blew upon his philosophy, and took matters at last with some amusement, at times, even, with a sense of the enjoyable.
He was not quite penniless.

Those who had helped in his escape from Edinburgh had provided him gold.

But, his voyage paid for, he must buy at Vigo fresh apparel and a horse.

When at last he rode eastward and northward he was poor enough! Food and lodging must be bought for himself and his steed.

Inns and innkeepers, chance folk applied to for guidance, petty officials in perennially suspicious towns--twenty people a day stood ready to present a spectral aspect of leech and gold-sucker! He was expert in traveling, but usually he had borne a purse quite like that of Fortunatus.