[518] Cf. R. Devizes, 20, Est., ll. 547-58, 607-24, and Gesta, 138, 139.
[519] Cf. R. Devizes, 19, R. Diceto, ii. 85, Gesta, 127, and R. Howden, iii.
[520] It seems to have been really another beacon-tower or pharos, placed on the island—like the tower on the Sicilian mainland opposite Scylla, where Richard had first landed—to give warning of the proximity of Charybdis; see Gesta, 158.
[521] Gesta, 127; R. Devizes, 19.
[522] Cf. Gesta, l.c., and Est., ll. 627-44; the date is from the former. R. Devizes, 22, seems to make it October 2, but his whole account of the matter is fantastic, while that of the Gesta is in close accord with the eye-witness Ambrose, the poet of the Estoire.
[523] Gesta, l.c.
[524] Ib., 138; see Archer’s note on them, Crusade of Richard I, 31.
[525] Gesta, 128; R. Devizes, 22, 23; Est., ll. 649-53.
[526] Est., ll. 654-67.
[527] Gesta, 128; for Hugh the Brown cf. R. Diceto, ii. 85, Est., ll. 717-20, Itin. 161, and R. Devizes, 23.