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VIDEOCUENTO - XXVII - "EL BARCO ENCANTADO"

 

 A VIDEOCUENTO XXVI           

                                                                                 VIDEOCUENTO XXVIII

DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA
CHAPTER XXVII
"The Enchanted Ship"
(SYNOPSIS)

When Teresa Panza and Sanchica discover that their neighbor, Tomé
Cecial had seen Sancho (when he served as squire to the Knight of the
Mirrors, alias Samson Carrasco), they invited him to eat with them and
asked him about Sancho. Tomé told the two women that Sancho was well and
would return home as soon as his master had won the jousts that were to be celebrated in Saragossa. Teresa said she was confident that her good husband would be awarded the isle he had been promised by Don Quixote. Lopecillo Tocho, Sanchica's fiancé, comes on scene and the two of them discuss their wedding plans.

Meanwhile, the Bachelor has recuperated from his terrible beating at the hands of Don Quixote and bids the barber and curate farewell, as he takes to the road in quest of the Knight of the Pitiful Figure in order to defeat him once and for all. But before leaving, he visits the home of the Nobleman where the niece and housekeeper beg him to go easy on the old gentleman. After promising to do so, Samson exits.

After their encounter with the aldermen's villagers, Sancho and Don Quixote take refuge in a poplar grove. Sancho complains bitterly to his master for having abandoned him and at the anger of the mob and says that he should return home to his wife and daughter and continue no further along the road, eating and drinking poorly and sleeping on the ground.

Don Quixote is hurt by Sanchos's egoism and offers to pay him off rather than continue on with a rascal of a squire, calling him a fool to want to abandon the adventure just when he, Don Quixote, was about to award him his isle, the very best one in the whole world. Sancho then changes his mind, apologizes to his master and begs him to allow him to continue.

At dawn, they continue on until reaching the banks of the River Ebro.
Don Quixote sees a boat tied up to the trunk of a tree on the bank of the river and assumes that it is an enchanted ship on which he is to travel to distant lands in order to free some innocent person from the hands of wicked captors. But it served of no avail that Sancho should try and convince him that 'twas merely a fisherman's boat.

Having left Rocinante and Rucio tied to a tree, the two adventurers navegate with the current and discover a water mill. The knight confuses this with a fortress in which he believes that some queen or princess is being held against her will and is in need of his help.

The millers view aghast how the boat crashes into the wheel of the mill and rush to the aid of our two heroes, floundering by now in the river.

Meanwhile, the owners of the fishing boat discover that it is missing and begin to run down the river, in the direction of the current, where they finally discover it at the water mill, completely destroyed by the mill wheels. Furious, they demand payment for the damage to their boat. Don Quixote agrees to pay up but only on the condition that the person held captive in the fortress (water mill) be liberated.
Since what he was asking was impossible, Don Quixote's demands could not be satisfied, but he had to pay fifty reales for damages to the boat.

Then he and Sancho returned, downhearted, to the spot where Rocinante and Rucio were waiting for them.