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a very few individuals of it lived to join the hermitunder the Constantinopolitan bastions.

With this offal and what remained of all threeof the divisions, re-inforced by Normans,Venetians,Pisans, Genoese, and others that he had picked up,he formed a new army of a hundred thousand, quiteas undisciplined, and simple, and wicked as his first,and at the head of this collection the hermit set outalong with his aide-de-camp Sansavoir, to try a freshcampaign, not unlike Don Quixote and SanchoPanza making for their second excursion. Manywho left home pious, their piety went out on theroad. Bold men get the upper hand, and bad ex-ample gives the law. Thus their robberies rousedConstantinople, and even various churches in itssuburbs suffering for their neighbourhood, the em-peror was engaged to give them ships to transportthem into Asia, without any further delay; whenadvancing with the same temerity as before, aTurkish army cut them to pieces — poor Sans-avoir was run through the body ten several times,and the hermit in a most cowardly manner escaped—and in one single day that whole vast gatheringdisappeared, and left only a great heap of bonesin a valley near Nice.

So Europe was horror struck at learning that offour hundred thousand crusaders she had sent out,