bogs. William of Malmsbury expressly mentions the Welsh and Scots,
&c., (l. iv. p. 133,) who quitted, the former venatiorem, the latter
familiaritatem pulicum.]

[Footnote 79: This cannibal hunger, sometimes real, more frequently
an artifice or a lie, may be found in Anna Comnena, (Alexias, l. x.
p. 288,) Guibert, (p. 546,) Radulph. Cadom., (c. 97.) The stratagem is
related by the author of the Gesta Francorum, the monk Robert Baldric,
and Raymond des Agiles, in the siege and famine of Antioch.]

Chapter LVIII: The First Crusade.--Part IV.

I have expiated with pleasure on the first steps of the crusaders, as
they paint the manners and character of Europe: but I shall abridge the
tedious and uniform narrative of their blind achievements, which were
performed by strength and are described by ignorance. From their first
station in the neighborhood of Nicomedia, they advanced in successive
divisions; passed the contracted limit of the Greek empire; opened a
road through the hills, and commenced, by the siege of his capital,
their pious warfare against the Turkish sultan. His kingdom of Roum
extended from the Hellespont to the confines of Syria, and barred the
pilgrimage of Jerusalem, his name was Kilidge-Arslan, or Soliman,
[80] of the race of Seljuk, and son of the first conqueror; and in the
defence of a land which the Turks considered as their own, he deserved
the praise of his enemies, by whom alone he is known to posterity.
Yielding to the first impulse of the torrent, he deposited his family
and treasure in Nice; retired to the mountains with fifty thousand
horse; and twice descended to assault the camps or quarters of the
Christian besiegers, which formed an imperfect circle of above six
miles. The lofty and solid walls of Nice were covered by a deep ditch,
and flanked by three hundred and seventy towers; and on the verge of
Christendom, the Moslems were trained in arms, and inflamed by religion.
Before this city, the French princes occupied their stations, and
prosecuted their attacks without correspondence or subordination:
emulation prompted their valor; but their valor was sullied by cruelty,
and their emulation degenerated into envy and civil discord. In the
siege of Nice, the arts and engines of antiquity were employed by the
Latins; the mine and the battering-ram, the tortoise, and the belfrey or
movable turret, artificial fire, and the catapult and balist, the sling,
and the crossbow for the casting