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Itinerary
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Again, a common fellow of our camp was spreading his net outside
the camp, either for the purpose of driving off the Turks or to catch them if
they came on; one of them came rushing forward on horseback, and put
the man to flight before he had finished what he was about; but unable to
overtake him, he gave up the pursuit, when he saw him reach the camp,
and in his excessive indignation, he began to pluck up the net. But after
pulling up some poles by which the net was fixed with cords, his horseÕs
head was accidentally entangled and caught by the net, which he was
trying to roll up in a hasty, incautious manner. The horse, being one of
great beauty, was indignant at being thus hampered, and in his wild
attempts to get free, became more and more entangled. Some of our men
seeing this, rode down in haste toward him. The Turk, finding his horse
entangled, quickly dismounted and fled on foot, and although deprived of
his steed, escaped his pursuers, for fear added wings to his feet. His
valuable horse, which had broken the net in many parts, was with
difficulty disentangled, and became an object of contention, but was given
to the man who had fixed the net, as compensation for his loss.
Chapter LIII. Ñ Of the TurkÕs horse that was caught in a foot-trap.
At another time, when, on account of the frequent and sudden sallies
of the Turks, our chiefs ordered that foot-traps should be made and buried
in the earth to escape being seen, it happened one day, that while some of
our young men were exercising by appointment in the plain by throwing
darts at a mark, some of the Turks, putting spurs to their horses, suddenly
attacked them, upon which our young men, being unarmed and inferior in
numbers, retreated to the camp. But one of the pursuers, as if trusting in
the activity of his horse, too eagerly outstript the others, when the animal
was suddenly stopped in its career by being caught in a foot-trap, and no
effort or endeavour of his rider could extricate him. The Turk, preferring
the loss of his horse to that of his head, escaped on foot uninjured, to his
own friends. The horse was decreed to be given to him whose instrument
caught it, viz. Robert Count of Dreux.
Chapter LIV. Ñ How Ivo de Vipont stays eighty pirates with a handful of men.

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Itinerary
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On another occasion, as three sailors were conducting Ivo de Vipont
with ten companions to Tyre, and had wandered too far from the port,
some Turkish pirates, coming out in a galley from an eddy of the sea near
the land, bore down upon them; they were about eighty in number, and
when the sailors saw them coming near, in their excessive fear they cried
out together, ÒO Lord God, we shall be taken and slaughtered.Ó To whom
Ivo de Vipont said, ÒWhy do ye of little faith fear those whom you shall
soon see dead?Ó And when the enemyÕs galley appeared by force of rowing
to be on the point of striking the vessel with its beak, Ivo leapt into it and
began to cut down the Turks who pressed upon him, with the axe he
carried in his hand. His companions, when they saw his work prosper,
gaining heart, leapt into the galley also, and either beheaded whomsoever
they found, or led them away captives. Thus these men triumphed who
placed their hope in God, who knows not how to be conquered, and with
whom a counterfeit faith availeth not, nor a multitude of warriors, for it
matters not with the Lord whether the valour of battle and the glory of
victory rest with a few or with many.
Chapter LV. Ñ The admiralÕs genitalia destroyed by the Greek fire with which the
enemy proposed to destroy our machines.
Again, when the townsmen beheld a great multitude of our people
going, as was their wont, in search of provender for the animals, they
sallied out against them under the command of their admiral
Bellegeminus, a famous and powerful man, and rushed without care upon
them; but our men withstood the enemy obstinately, and after many were
killed on both sides, drove them back into the city. But the admiral stood
his ground a long time, as he was a man of greater bravery than the others;
while he was doing his best to execute the main object of the attack by
cutting to pieces or burning with Greek fire the machines which were
ready to move against the walls of the city, and as, while his men fled, he
lagged behind to accomplish his purpose, a soldier, coining behind, threw
him from his horse, and the vessel in which he carried the Greek fire being

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