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Previous  Next    THE Sea Kings, in their predatory wanderings,
landed in Genvor Cove, and, as they had frequently done on
previous occasions, they proceeded to pillage the little hamlet
of Escols. On one occasion they landed in unusally large
numbers, being resolved, as it appeared, to spoil many of the
large and wealthy towns of Western Cornwall, which they were led
to believe were unprotected. It fortunately happened that the
heavy surf on the beach retarded their landing, so that the
inhabitants had notice of their threatened invasion.  That night
the beacon-fire was lit on the chapel hill, another was soon
blazing on Castle-an-Dinas, and on Trecrobben. Cam Brea promptly
replied, and continued the signal-light, which also blazed
lustrously that night on St Agnes Beacon. Presently the fires
were seen on Belovely Beacon, and rapidly they appeared on the
Great Stone, on St Bellarmine's Tor, and Cadbarrow, and then the
fires blazed out on Roughtor and