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CHAPTER III.

j Qgg The tumults of war had ceased, for it wasnow in October of 1099, 1 and (the victoriouscrusadersbeing come backfrom Ascalon some weeks),Jerusalem resumed a share of the silence and melan-choly usual to it ever since Christ’s death. 2 Manydetachments had gone homeward, and who willnot follow? 3 But the choicest of that choice armystill delayed, and both officers and soldiers seemedto dread the day they were to separate from whomthey loved and revered so much. Godfrey’s firstcare in that precarious state, was to make the most

1 P. Antonio Paoli: DeH’Origine delTOrdino di S. Gio.Geros., &c., 4to, Eoma, 1781, p. 445.

2 Michaud: Corres. d’Orient, vol. iv. p. 245.—“La cite laplus luguhro du monde,” Id. 289.

3 Pcz : Chronicon Austriaeum, 547.—Bib. dcs Croisades, iii. 195.