ged to second with his troops and treasures. On the return of
spring, Godfrey was persuaded to occupy a pleasant and plentiful camp in
Asia; and no sooner had he passed the Bosphorus, than the Greek vessels
were suddenly recalled to the opposite shore. The same policy was
repeated with the succeeding chiefs, who were swayed by the example, and
weakened by the departure, of their foremost companions. By his skill
and diligence, Alexius prevented the union of any two of the confederate
armies at the same moment under the walls of Constantinople; and before
the feast of the Pentecost not a Latin pilgrim was left on the coast of
Europe.

[Footnote 64: Anna Comnena was born the 1st of December, A.D. 1083,
indiction vii., (Alexiad. l. vi. p. 166, 167.) At thirteen, the time of
the first crusade, she was nubile, and perhaps married to the younger
Nicephorus Bryennius, whom she fondly styles, (l. x. p. 295, 296.) Some
moderns have imagined, that her enmity to Bohemond was the fruit of
disappointed love. In the transactions of Constantinople and Nice, her
partial accounts (Alex. l. x. xi. p. 283-317) may be opposed to the
partiality of the Latins, but in their subsequent exploits she is brief
and ignorant.]

[Footnote 65: In their views of the character and conduct of Alexius,
Maimbourg has favored the Catholic Franks, and Voltaire has been
partial to the schismatic Greeks. The prejudice of a philosopher is less
excusable than that of a Jesuit.]

[Footnote 651: Wilken quotes a remarkable passage of William of
Malmsbury as to the secret motives of Urban and of Bohemond in urging
the crusade. Illud repositius propositum non ita vulgabatur, quod
Boemundi consilio, pene totam Europam in Asiaticam expeditionem moveret,
ut in tanto tumultu omnium provinciarum facile obaeratis auxiliaribus,
et Urbanus Romam et Boemundus Illyricum et Macedoniam pervaderent. Nam
eas terras et quidquid praeterea a Dyrrachio usque ad Thessalonicam
protenditur, Guiscardus pater, super Alexium acquisierat; ideirco illas
Boemundus suo juri competere clamitabat: inops haereditatis Apuliae,
quam genitor Rogerio, minori filio delegaverat. Wilken, vol. ii. p.
313.--M]

[Footnote 66: Between the Black Sea, the Bosphorus, and the River
Barbyses, which is deep in summer, and runs fifteen miles through a flat
meadow. Its communication with Europe and Constantinople is by the
stone bridge of the Blachernoe, which in successive ages was restored by
Justinian and B