The Queen of Navarre and the Princess Berengaria were with the fleet.

Strains of music rose from the waters, and never were the circumstances of war exhibited in a more picturesque form.
For two days the expedition sailed on, and then a change of a sudden and disastrous kind took place.
"What is all this bustle about ?" Cuthbert said to Cnut.

"The sailors are running up the ladders, all seems confusion." "Methinks," said Cnut, "that we are about to have a storm.

A few minutes ago scarce a cloud was to be seen; now that bank over there has risen halfway up the sky.

The sailors are accustomed to these treacherous seas, and the warnings which we have not noticed have no doubt been clear enough to them." With great rapidity the sails of the fleet came down, and in five minutes its whole aspect was changed; but quickly as the sailors had done their work, the storm was even more rapid in its progress.