volume one

106 HISTOSY or TKE CHL'SADES.
enemies at Xice, and ^tliout taking any precaution, without
any other guides than the Greeks, of Trhom they had so
much reason to comnlain, they adyanced into a country with
which they were totally unacquainted. They had no idea of
the obstacles they should encoimter in their march, and
their ignorance created their security.
They had dJAided their army into two bodies, which
marched at some distance the one from the other, across
the mountains of Lesser Phrygia. By marching thus separately
they could more easily procure proyisions ; but they
ran the risk of being surprised by an actiye and yigilant
enemy. Kilidge-Arslan, twice conquered by the Christians,
had slathered to2:ether new forces. At the head of an army,
which the Latin historians say amounted to two hundred
thousand men, he followed the Crusaders, watching for an
opportunity to surprise them,
for the conquest of Xice.
and to make them pay dearly
^Tiilst the main army, commanded by G-odfrey, Eaymond,
Adhemar, Hugh the Great, and the count of Flanders, was
crossino^ the plain of Dorylaeum, the other body, which was
commanded by Bohemond, Tancred. and the duke of Xormandy,
directed its march to the left. It was following the
banks of a little riyer, and was adyancing into a yaUey to
which the Latin historians haye giyen the name of Gorgoni
or Ozellis.* Some intimations had been giyen by the
Greeks that the enemy was niorh, but the Crusaders belieyed
they had nothing to fear. After a day's march, on the eyening
of the 30th of Jime, they arriyed at a place which offered them
abundant pasturage, and they resolyed to encamp. The
Christian army passed the night in the most profound secu-
* This valley, formed on the north bv the mountain in-Eengni, and
•watered by a river which runs from west to east, and which is perhaps the
Bathis of the ancients, having the villages of Taochanlu and Gourmen on
the eeist, and that of Yen-Euglu on the west ;* this last is but three
marine leagues, or nine miles, from Dorylseum. Albert d'Aix calls this
valley Dogorganhi, which appears to be the Oriental name, from which
the Latin historians have made that of Gorgoni, which paints in some
sort the horrors of this fatal day. Ozelli? is apparently the name which
the Greeks gave it. "SVe owe these particulars to the learned inquiries of
Walckeuaer.
See Arrowsmith's Map of Constantinople and its environs.