The "_ferryman-fiend_" was so enraged, that, just as they reached the shore, he ran the boat against a projecting point, and overturned it.

Only three persons, besides himself, escaped: the rest were all lost.

The wretch fled instantly, and was never taken; he was condemned to death, and hung in effigy; and since then an annual procession takes place on the banks of the Drot, where the catastrophe occurred, and solemn service is performed for the victims.
The town of La Reole has an imposing effect, rising from the waters.

It has shared the fate of all the other towns on the banks, during the ceaseless troubles which for ages made this river roll with blood.

When Sully was but fifteen, he was amongst a successful party who took possession of this place; he entered, at the head of fifty men, and gained it in most gallant style; but it was lost the next year, under the following circumstances, which prove that Henry IV.