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He continued , however , to swim after his conscious efforts ceased : for his body was found next morning on a strip of Cornish sand between Gorran and Mevagissey , washed by every sheet of surf . His rescuer , a shrimp-fisher , occupied one of three cots perched on a ravine ; and there on the evening of the second day he opened his eyes on a settee , four children screaming in play around him ; he so far having been seen only by a reporter from Mevagissey , and the doctor from Gorran , who , on his wide rounds , had been asked into the cottage . The same night Hogarth spoke to the fisher : told him that he was not a wrecked sailor , had reasons for avoiding observation , and would pay for shelter and silence : whereat the fisher , who was drinking hot beer , winked , and promised ; and the next day took for Hogarth a telegram , signed `` Elm Tree '' , to Mevagissey , asking of Loveday five pounds . Finally , one midnight , after two weeks of skulking , he reached Whitechapel , where , the fact of his brown skin now giving him the idea of orientalizing himself , at a Jew 's , in a little interior behind the counter , he bought sandals , a caftan , a black sudayree , an old Bagdad shawl for girdle , and a greenish-yellow Bedouin head-cloth , or kefie , which banded the forehead , draped the face like a nun 's wimple , and fell loose . For these he discarded the shrimp-man 's clothes ; and now dubbed himself `` Peter the Hermit '' . For he meant to start-a Crusade . At a police-station on the third day he saw a description of himself : three moles , bloodshot eye , white teeth , pouting mouth ; but over the moles now hung the head-cloth .