CHAPTER IX.
AN ADVENTURE.

[’ was not the good fortune of all the warriors who
had taken the Cross to escape the perils of the
deep, and reach Cyprus in safety.

About a month after Guy Muschamp and Walter
Espec had reached Limisso, a tall ship bearing a
Crusader of noble name, who had left Constantinople
to combat the Saracens under the banner of St.
Denis, was sailing gallantly towards Cyprus, when
a violent storm arose, and threatened her with
destruction. ‘The wind blew fiercely; the sea ran
mountains Ingh; and, though the ship for a time ©
strugoled sturdily with the elements, she could
not resist her fate. Her cordage creaked, and her
timbers groaned dismally; and, as she was by turns
borne aloft on the waves crested with foam and
precipitated headlong into the gulphs that yawned
between, great was the terror, loud the wailing, and
frightful the turmoil. Im vain the mariners exerted
their strength and skill. No efforts on their part
could enable the vessel to .resist the fury of the
tempest. |

very minute matters became more desperate.