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.