The knight was not mounted on Rocinante, but accommodated with an ambling mule gayly caparisoned; and, upon the back of his coat or cloak, they pinned a parchment inscribed in large letters, This is Don Quixote de la Mancha. The procession no sooner began than this scroll attracted the eyes of the people; and, when they read it aloud the knight was astonished to find himself known, and hear his name repeated by all the spectators.