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from Ramla, he fell with his horse and waskilled . 1

The victorious Baldwin then marched south-easttowards Hebron and the Dead Sea, to terrify theSaracens, who had recently annoyed Christian pil-grims, whereupon the former hid in cavernsthey had to be smoked out of, not dissimilar fromthe inroads the French have been lately constrainedto in Algeria. On the south of the great asphalticlake, they took a town, and penetrated to theArabian mountains, where they found snow, andthe whole army were obliged to bivouac in holesin the rock, the entire country abounding in suchhiding-places, with no other food than dates, andsuch wild animals as they could kill, and the purewater from occasional excellent springs and foun-tains . 2 And they visited with respect a monasterycalled St. Aaron, on the spot where Moses andAaron spoke with God, and tarried for three daysin a beautiful valley clad with palms, and full ofall kinds of fruit, and the very place where Moseshad made a source bubble up from the flanks ofan arid rock, and where the chronicler declares hewatered his mule, and Baldwin his cavalry, afterwhich he turned towards Jerusalem, passing by

1 Arab. Chron., 17.

2 Michaud: Hist., ii., 17.