of water and provision: their
numbers exhausted the inland country: the sea was remote, the Greeks
were unfriendly, and the Christians of every sect fled before the
voracious and cruel rapine of their brethren. In the dire necessity of
famine, they sometimes roasted and devoured the flesh of their infant
or adult captives. Among the Turks and Saracens, the idolaters of Europe
were rendered more odious by the name and reputation of Cannibals; the
spies, who introduced themselves into the kitchen of Bohemond, were
shown several human bodies turning on the spit: and the artful Norman
encouraged a report, which increased at the same time the abhorrence and
the terror of the infidels. [79]

[Footnote 73: There is some diversity on the numbers of his army; but
no authority can be compared with that of Ptolemy, who states it at five
thousand horse and thirty thousand foot, (see Usher's Annales, p 152.)]

[Footnote 74: Fulcher. Carnotensis, p. 387. He enumerates nineteen
nations of different names and languages, (p. 389;) but I do not clearly
apprehend his difference between the Franci and Galli, Itali and Apuli.
Elsewhere (p. 385) he contemptuously brands the deserters.]

[Footnote 75: Guibert, p. 556. Yet even his gentle opposition implies an
immense multitude. By Urban II., in the fervor of his zeal, it is only
rated at 300,000 pilgrims, (epist. xvi. Concil. tom. xii. p. 731.)]

[Footnote 76: Alexias, l. x. p. 283, 305. Her fastidious delicacy
complains of their strange and inarticulate names; and indeed there
is scarcely one that she has not contrived to disfigure with the proud
ignorance so dear and familiar to a polished people. I shall select only
one example, Sangeles, for the count of St. Giles.]

[Footnote 77: William of Malmsbury (who wrote about the year 1130) has
inserted in his history (l. iv. p. 130-154) a narrative of the first
crusade: but I wish that, instead of listening to the tenue murmur which
had passed the British ocean, (p. 143,) he had confined himself to the
numbers, families, and adventures of his countrymen. I find in Dugdale,
that an English Norman, Stephen earl of Albemarle and Holdernesse, led
the rear-guard with Duke Robert, at the battle of Antioch, (Baronage,
part i. p. 61.)]

[Footnote 78: Videres Scotorum apud se ferocium alias imbellium cuneos,
(Guibert, p. 471;) the crus intectum and hispida chlamys, may suit the
Highlanders; but the finibus uliginosis may rather apply to the Irish