Also, before he went away, Richard made King Tancred a farewell present of a very valuable antique sword, which had been found, he said, by his father in the tomb of a famous old English knight who had lived some centuries before. CHAPTER X. THE CAMPAIGN IN CYPRUS. 1190 The expedition is at last ready to sail from Sicily.--The grand spectacle of the embarkation at Messina.--The order of sailing.--Trenc-le-mer.--The storm.--Navigation in the twelfth century.--Limesol in Cyprus.--The wrecked ships.--King Richard's seal.--The wreckers.--Isaac Comnenus.--Law and justice.--Law is not the creator, but the protector of property.--Joanna's inquiries for her brother.--An alarm.--A retreat.--Richard's vessel appears.--Richard's indignation on meeting Joanna's vessel.--Richard's contest with King Isaac Comnenus.--The history of the law of wrecks.--Richard having landed, Isaac asks a truce.--Negotiating.--Richard was a Norman, not an Englishman.--Preparing for war.--King Richard's battle-axe.--The conquest of Limesol.--Signaling for the queen's galley.--The terms of peace which Richard offered to Isaac.--How Richard faithlessly took King Isaac a prisoner.--King Richard subjugates Cyprus.--The miserable death of King Isaac.--Richard's wedding at last.--A coronation.--The king's accoutrement.--Favelle.--The appearance of Berengaria.-- The time at length fully arrived for the departure of the English fleet from Sicily for the purpose of continuing the voyage to the Holy Land. Besides the delay which had been occasioned to Richard by circumstances connected with his marriage, he had waited also a short time for some store-ships to arrive from England with ammunition and supplies. When the store-ships at length came, the day for the sailing was immediately appointed, the tents were struck, the encampment abandoned, and the troops embarked on board the ships of the fleet. The Sicilians were all greatly excited, as the sailing of the fleet drew nigh, with anticipations of the splendor of the spectacle. The harbor was filled with ships of every form and size, and the movements connected with the embarkation of the troops on board of them, the striking of the tents, the packing up of furniture and goods, the hurrying of men to and fro, the crowding at the landings, the rapid transit of boats back and forth between the ships and the shore, and all the other scenes and incidents usually attendant on the embarkation of a great army, occupied the attention of the people of the country, and filled them with excitement and pleasure. It is highly probable, too, that their pleasure was increased by the prospect that they were soon to be relieved from the presence of such troublesome and unmanageable visitors.