[81] I have made earnest researches to discover by what means the Christian army was provisioned, and I can learn nothing beyond the fact that the Crusaders carried hand-mills with them.
[82] Tunc autem vere vel rideretis, vel forsitan pietate lachrymaremini, cum multis nostrum jumentis egentes, verveces, capras, sues, canes, de rebus suis orerabant. Equites etiam supra boves cum armis suis interdum scandebant.—Ful. Carn. apud Bougais, p. 589.
[83] The Isauria trachea of the ancients.
[84] Quamplurimæ namque fœtæ mulieres exsiccatis faucibus, arefactis visceribus ... mediâ plateâ in omnium aspectu fœtus suos enixæ relinquebant; aliæ miseræ juxta fœtus suos in vid communi volutabantur, omnem pudorem et secreta sua oblitæ.—Alb. Aquem. lib. iii. cap. 2.
[85] This remarkable circumstance is taken from the Life of Godfrey, by Jean de Launel, écuyer seigneur de Chantreau, and Du Chaubert.
[86] Consult, for this expedition, Pelloutier, Histoire des Celtes.
[87] Now Konieh, in Caramania.
[88] Ancient history presents us with something exceedingly like that which is related here. During the civil wars that divided the Roman empire under the triumvirate, Cassius and Dolabella disputed the possession of the town of Tarsus. Some, says Appian, had crowned Cassius, who had arrived first in the city; others had crowned Dolabella, who came after him. Each of the two parties had given a character of public authority to their proceedings; and in conferring honours, first to one and then to the other, they each contributed to the misfortunes of a city so versatile in its likings.—Appian, Hist. of the Civil Wars, b. iv c. 8.
[89] This is the Messis of Aboulfeda. See an article upon this city in Mannert, tom. vi. p. 2, p. 101, which is very learned and very well done.
[90] When Baldwin quitted the Christian army, it had arrived at Marrash.