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 and the lion collected them together. Then he constructed himself a broad raft and launched it on the water and embarked upon it. Just at that time the lion had stayed away a little longer than usual, seeking food, and Brunswik, wishing to escape from the lion, thrust himself from the shore. Just then the lion came up, bearing a wild swine in his mouth, and becoming enraged sprang after Brunswik, bearing the swine in his mouth, so that he barely sprang on to the raft with his forefeet, and thus with two feet the lion held fast the raft and swam a good while. Brunswik, seeing again that the lion would never leave him, began with great difficulty to help him, till he helped him onto the raft. Here again Brunswik was in great danger, scarcely being able to keep himself on the raft so as not to fall into the sea; and though he did keep himself on the raft, yet he was always sitting in the water, sometimes up to his neck, sometimes to his waist. And thus he floated in the water eighteen days, the lion sitting at one end of the raft, and he at the other, and thus they saved each other from drowning. Nine days and nine nights did the sea sport with them, and for