Kantakouzenos heard of a hundred Normans making rafts to cross the river and attack a village beyond it. He attacked and captured most of them, including a huge cousin of Bohemond's, who was taken prisoner by a tiny Pecheneg. Alexios and Kantakouzenos organised a ceremony, in which the pigmy captor and gigantic prisoner played a starring role, causing great laughter. But Byzantine successes were interrupted by news of a massacre of the troops of Kamytzes and Kabasilas, which distressed Alexios I, without in any way making him downhearted