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from the White Custody, and there waited for the arrival of the people one month.

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Itinerary
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On the third day, i.e. the ninth of June, the army arrived at ÒTuron of
the Soldiers,Ó without obstacle or misfortune. On that night, our men
captured fourteen Parthians who had come down from the mountains to
plunder. On the morrow, after dinner, the army moved forward, the king
going first, with his own private soldiers, as far as the castle of Arnald,
where he ordered his tent to be pitched on the right and higher side of the
castle. On the morrow, the French arrived, and the whole army set out for
Betenoble, where they stayed some time in expectation of Count Henry,
whom King Richard had sent to Acre to fetch the people who were living
there in idleness; wherefore, it was necessary for the army to stay a whole
month or more at the foot of the mountain, which the pilgrims are obliged
to cross in going to and returning from the Holy City. While in the valley,
we saw many things happen which we do not think we ought to pass over
in silence. On the morrow of St. Barnabas, which was Friday, the king was
informed by a spy that the Turks were on the mountains, lying in ambush
for those who should pass by, and at earliest dawn he set out in search of
them, and coining to the fountain of Emaus, he caught them unawares,
slew twenty, put the others to flight, and captured SaladinÕs herald, who
was accustomed to proclaim his edicts; he was the only one King Richard
saved alive. He also took three camels, and horses, mules, and beautiful
Turcomans; and also two mules laden with costly silken coverings, and
different species of aloes, and other things. The rest of the Saracens he
pursued over the mountains, routing and slaying them, until he came to a
valley, where, after piercing one of the enemy, and casting him dying from
his horse, he looked up and beheld in the distance the city of Jerusalem.
Chapter L. Ñ How the Turks in Jerusalem, on hearing that King Richard was
coming fled away in terror, and how Saladin prepared for flight.
When, therefore, news was brought by the fugitive Turks to those
who dwelt in Jerusalem, that King Richard was approaching, they were
struck with terror, and there is no doubt that had the king and his army
moved forward at this critical juncture of their panic, the Turks would have
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it; for the Saracens one and all had left it and fled, and not a man who
could defend it even ventured to remain in the city; nor was any one
deterred by the threats of the sultan, or allured by the hope of reward; for
all that the sultan himself demanded was to be supplied with his swiftest
charger, that he might flee from the face of King Richard, whose arrival he
dared not await.
Chapter LI. Ñ How, while the French were at Betenoble, they would have been
routed in a conflict with 200 Turks, had not the bishop of Salisbury come to their
succour.
On the same day on which the king was thus employed, two
hundred Saracens came down from the mountains to the plain opposite the
tents of the French, and threw the whole army into confusion before they
could be put to flight. They had killed two of our guards, who had gone
some distance in search of fodder for the beasts of burden; at whose cry,
the French rushed forth with the Templars and Hospitallers, but the Turks
defended themselves manfully at the foot of the mountain, and boldly
returned their blows, refusing to fight with our men on level ground, but
turning to resist as soon as they reached the declivity of the mountain; they
also unhorsed one of our knights, from which the French obtained no small
disgrace. On this occasion a knight would have performed an act of
memorable valour, had he not transgressed the rule of his order, and his
exploit was ascribed more to rashness than real courage. He was an
Hospitaller, by name Robert de Bruges, who, having passed the royal
standard, spurred with violence the valuable charger on which he sat, and
in his eagerness to close with the enemy, issuing from the ranks, contrary
to discipline, charged the Turks alone, before the others came up in order;
and urging at full speed against a Turk who was most splendidly armed,
he pierced him through his coat of mail and body with such force, that the
lance came out at his back. The Turk fell to the ground, but his body was
not left behind; and then our men made a simultaneous charge upon the
enemy. After this, Gervier, the master of the Hospitallers, commanded
Robert to dismount, and attend to the discipline of his order; Robert

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