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Doryleum. When they took the Turkish camp,at this latter place, they found camels, animalstill then unknown in Europe. It was July 1st,1097. The Franks praised the Turks highly; andvaunted of their common origin. And chroniclersavow that, were the Turks but Christians, theywould be equal to the crusaders; that is, thebravest, wisest, ablest soldiers in the world. Whatthe Turks thought is evident from their attributingthe victory to a miracle. “ And what wonder sinceSt. George and St. Demetrius were with ourenemy? One sees you do not know the Franks,’’said Kilzig-Arslan to the Arabs, who blamed hisretreat, “you have never experienced their as-tonishing bravery; such power is not human—but comes either from God or the devil.”

On the next day but one after, the crusadersrenewed their march eastward, nor found anymore resistance throughout all Asia Minor, socompletely had it been terrified by the day ofDoryleum, to which was now to be added the ap-proach of the main body of the Frank army, toboth of which was it owing that Tancred, with twoor three hundred cavalry, galloping rapidly about,took town after town, the whole of Cilicia, and upto the south of Scanderoon; killing every Turkwithout repose or mercy. In Asia Minor had