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soldiers had lost their baggage ; some pursued the fugitive
slaves, whilst others addressed their complaints to Saladin.
Amidst such confusion and tumult, it was impossible for
the sultan to follow up the advantage he had gained,, and as
winter was approaching, and the Mussulmans were short of
provisions, he abandoned the plain, and retned to the mountain
Karouba.
The Christians, who now remained masters of the plain,
extended their lines over the whole chain of hills that sur-
rounded the city of Ptolemais ;
the marquis of Montferrat,
with his troops, the Venetians, the Pisans, and the Crusaders
commanded by the archbishop of Eavenna and the bishop of
Pisa, encamped towards the north, and occupied ground
from the sea to the road to Damascus. Xear the camp of
Conrad, the Hospitallers pitched their tents, in a valley
which had belonged to them before the taking of Ptolemais
by the Saracens. The Genoese occupied the hill which contemporary
historians call Mount IMusard. The French and
English, who were in front of the Cursed Tower, were placed
in the centre, imder the orders of the counts of Dreux,
Blois, and Clermont, and the archbishops of Besan9on and
Canterbury. Close to the camp of the French floated the
banners of the Flemings, commanded by the bishop of Cambrai,
and Pavmond II., viscount de Turenne.
Gruy de Lusignan encamped with his soldiers and knights
upon the hill of Turon, which part of the camp served as
citadel and head-quarters to the whole army. The king of
Jerusalem had with him the queen Sibylla, his two brothers
G-eoffrey and Aimar, Humphrey de Theron, the husband of
the second daughter of Amaury, the patriarch Heraclius,
and the clergv of the holv city. The viscount de Chatellerault,
who was of the same country as Guy de Lusignan,
ranged himself imder the standard of the king of Jerusalem.
The knights of the Temple, and the troop of Jacques
d'Avesnes, fixed their quarters between the hill of Turon
and the Belus, and guarded the road that led from Ptolemais
to Jerusalem. On the south of the Belus stood the tents
of the Germans, the Danes, and the Prisons : these northern
warriors, commanded by the landgrave of Thuringia and the
duke of Gueldi'es, were placed along the shore of the Eoad