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What was the surprise of the King and all his courtiers to behold him
overthrow them both! Then he rode up beneath the pavilion of the
Princess Celestine, and exhibited to her a ring which she had long
before given him. By this she knew that he was her own true knight. He
soon found means to tell her of his love, and all that had happened,
while Pedrillo did not forget to put in a word in his own favour with
her maiden.

They agreed that very night to fly to Spain. Pedrillo, who was cunning
in devices, turned their horses' shoes backwards, and thus, when they
were seeking safety in the west, it appeared as if they were flying
towards the east. Thus evading pursuit, they galloped on, crossed the
Red Sea, and, travelling through Africa, the whole party arrived safely
in that wondrous town of Seville, in Spain, where Saint James was born,
and which justly holds itself, in consequence, in the very highest
estimation.

CHAPTER SEVEN.

THE ADVENTURES OF SAINT ANTHONY OF ITALY.

The adventures of the great Saint Anthony of Italy, after he parted from
his friends at the brazen pillar, are now to be described. Taking ship,
like Father Aeneas of old, he and his attendant Squire traversed the
Mediterranean Sea, only he sailed eastward, while the pious Aeneas
sailed westward, over it. Numberless were the adventures he
encountered.

Now his ship was tossed by storms, now pursued by a huge sea monster,
with jaws so wide that the affrighted mariners believed that it was
about to swallow up bodily both them and their ship; but Saint Anthony,
putting on his armour, and standing on the poop, brandished his spear so
manfully in the monster's face that he effectually kept him at bay. His
faithful Squire shouted also with such good effect, that the monster was
fain to turn tail and to leave the ship and its honoured freight to
proceed unmolested.

At length Asia's ancient shores were reached, and travelling on,
performing every day unheard-of wonders, combating with terrible
monsters, and destroying wild beasts innumerable, he and Niccolo arrived
at the far-famed kingdom of Georgia.

They wandered on till they began to ascend, amid narrow defiles and dark
gorges, the rugged ranges of the mighty Caucasus, high above which
Elborus towers with gigantic splendour. As they climbed upwards, higher
and higher, there appeared before them a marble castle with gates of
brass, which they guessed, from inquiries they had made,