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the cities of Asia Minor, some from fear, and others from
affection to the Christians, sent deputies to offer them
supplies and to swear obedience to them. Thus they
found themselves masters of several countries of whose
names or geographical position they were perfectly ignorant.
Most of the Crusaders were far from being aware that
the provinces they had just subdued had seen the phalanx
of Alexander* and the armies of Rome, or that the
G-reeks, the inhabitants of these countries, were descended
from the Grauls, who, in the time of the second Brennus,
had left Illyria and the shores of the Danube, had crossed
the Bosphorus,* pillaged the city of Heraclea, and founded
a colony on the banks of the Halys. Without troubling
themselves with traces of antiquity, the new conquerors
ordered the Christian churches to be rebuilt, and scoured
the country to collect provisions.
During their abode at Antiochetta, the joy of their conquests
was, for a moment, disturbed by the fear of losing
two of their most renowned chiefs. Eaymond, count of
Thoulouse, fell dangerously ill. As his life was despaired
of, they had already laid him upon ashes, and the bishop
of Orange was repeating the litanies of the dead, when a
Saxon count came to announce that Raymond would not die
of this disease, and that the prayers of St. Grilles had obtained
for him a truce loitJi death. These words, says AVilliam of
Tyre, restored hope to all the bystanders, and soon Eajnnond
showed himself to the whole army, which celebrated his cure
as a miracle.
About the same time, Godfrey, who had one day wandered
into a forest, was in great danger from defending a soldier
who was attacked by a bear. He conquered the bear, but
being wounded in the thigh, and the blood flowing copiously,
he was carried in an apparently dying state into the camp of
the Crusaders. The loss of a battle would have spread less
consternation than the sad spectacle which now presented
itself to the eyes of the Christians. All the Crusaders shed
tears, and put up prayers for the life of Godfrey. The
wound did not prove dangerous, but weakened by the loss
of blood, the duke de Bouillon was a length of time before
* Consult, for this expedition, Pelloutier, Histoire des Celtes,
Vol. I.—
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