This done, the combined rowers, welcoming Gwynn as their deliverer from an abject slavery which seemed their lot for life, willingly accepted his orders.

The gale had meantime abated, and the two galleys, well conducted by the experienced and intrepid Welshman, made their way to the coast of France, and landed at Bayonne on the 31st, dividing among them the property found on board the two galleys.

Thence, by land, the fugitives, four hundred and sixty-six in number--Frenchmen, Spaniards, Englishmen, Turks, and Moors, made their way to Rochelle.

Gwynn had an interview with Henry of Navarre, and received from that chivalrous king a handsome present.

Afterwards he found his way to England, and was well commended by the Queen.