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and full of proud contempt for liis rival. " I do not know,"
said he, addressing the messengers of Baldwin, " that your
master is king of Jerusalem." He did not deign to make
any reply to a second summons. At length their mutual
friends employed prayers and entreaties, to which Tancred
reluctantly gave way. The two princes agreed to have an interview
between Jerusalem and Jaffa, in which interview Tancred
consented to forget past injuries, but would not renounce a
principality which he held from Grodfrey. The debates
between the prince of Galilee and the king of Jerusalem
were not terminated when messengers arrived from xA.ntioch,
conjuring Tancred to repair immediately to tlieir city, to
govern a state which had been without a head since the cap-
tivity of Bohemond. Tancred yielded to their entreaties,
and immediately set out for Antioch, abandoning to Hugli de
Saint Omer the city of Tiberias and the principality of Galilee.
These differences with Tancred did not impede Baldwin's
wars against the infidels, or his endeavours to extend his
young kingdom. AVhilst Persia, Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia
coidd bring numberless armies against the Christians,
Baldwin could only muster under his standard a small body
of warriors, to whom were added a few pilgrims from the
"West, the greater part without horses and very badly armed.
His bravery and activity surmounted all obstacles, and carried
him through all dangers. From the beginning of his
reign, we see with surprise the kingdom of Jerusalem, disturbed
in its infancy by discord, and only defended by a few
knights, rise in the midst of formidable enemies, and carry
terror amongst neighbours much more powerful than itself.
The king of Jerusalem took advantage of the arrival of a
Genoese fleet, to punish the rebellion of the inhabitants of
Arsur, and to lay siege to their city both by sea and land.
On the third day the city fell into the hands of the Christians.
A short time after, Baldwin besieged Caesarea, a city built
by Herod in honour of Ca?sar. The siege was carried on
with vigour ; on the fifteenth day everything was ready for a
general assault, and as soon as* the trumpet had given the
first signal, all the soldiers confessed and received absolution
for their sins. ^ The
patriarch, clothed in white vestments,
with a crucifix in his hand, led them to the foot of the ramparts
;—the city was soon taken, and the inhabitants put to