The division of the Emperor of Persia

So they dug their spurs into their horses and fell upon the division of the Emperor of Persia, which was the last. Very many were the people killed on the one side and on the other; and there was Count Walter taken, for all our people fled so shamefully that many in their despair drowned themselves n the sea. And they were thus panic-stricken because one of the battalions of the Emperor of Persia attacked the Soldan if la Chamelle, and though the Soldan defended himself right veil, yet of two thousand Turks that he led into battle, only ,Fourteen score remained when he left the field.

 Soldan in the castle of la Chamelle

The emperor decided that he would besiege the Soldan in the castle of la Chamelle, because he thought the Soldan sould not long hold out after he had lost so many of his people. When the Soldan saw this, he came to his people urid told them that he would go out and fight against the emperor, for if he suffered himself to be besieged, he would be lost. He so arranged matters that he sent out all his people who were ill armed by a hidden valley; and as soon is they heard the Soldan’s drums beating, they fell upon tl emperor’s camp from behind, and began to slay the women and children.

Now the emperor had gone into the field to fight the Soldan, whom he saw there before his eyes; but when he heard the cry raised in the rear by his own people, he re turned into his camp to succor the women and children. Then the Soldan fell upon him and upon his people, and that so well and to such good purpose, that out of the twenty- five thousand there present of the emperor’s people neither man nor woman remained; all were either killed in fight OJ given to the sword.

Before the Emperor of Persia came to la Chameue, he had taken Count Walter prisoner before Jaffa: and they hurt him by the arms to a forked pole, and told him they would not take him down till the Castle of Jaffa was theirs. While he was thus hanging by the arms he cried to those in the castle not to surrender for any hurt that might be done tc him, and that if they did surrender, he would slay then with his own hands.

OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE COUNCIL JOINVILLI

DIVERS OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE COUNCIL JOINVILLI OPPOSES THE RETURN TO FRANCE

On the Sunday after, we came again before the king; an the king asked his brothers, and the other barons, and the Count of Flanders, what advice they gave, whether to go c to remain. They all replied, that they had charged my Lord Guy of Mauvoisin to state the advice they wished to give t the king. The king commanded the Lord Guy to stat this advice accordingly; and he space as follows: “ Sir your brothers, and the men of note here present, have looker to your estate, and seen that you cannot remain in this Ian to your own honour, and that of your realm; for of all the knights that came in your company of whom you led two thousand eight hundred into Cyprus there are not now, this city, one hundred remaining. So they advise you, that you go to France, and there procure men and money whereby you may hastily return to this land, and take verance upon the enemies of God, who have had you in privity.”

The king would not rest satisfied with what my Lord Guy ‘ avoiding had said; but he inquired of the Count of Anjou, e Count of Poitiers, and the Count of Flanders, and several her men of note who sat near them. And all agreed with y Lord Guy Mauvoisin. The legate asked Count John of iffy, who sat behind them, what he thought. The Count Jaffa begged that they would suffer him not to reply to is question, “ for,” said he, “ my castle is on the marches, id if I advised the king to remain, men would think I did so my own profit,” Then the king asked him, as urgently he could, to say what he thought. And the count said at if the king could but hold the field for a year, he would himself great honor by remaining. Then the legate in rued of those who were sitting by the Count of Jaffa, and 1 agreed with my Lord Guy Mauvoisin.