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having lost his metropolis, Antioch. “ GloriousCount, magnificent, elevated in honour, magnani-mous with the courage of a lion, Bohemond, gloryof the nations of Messiah, champion of the cross,leader of the people of Jesus, but to whom nohigher title than count can now be given, sincefallen from that of prince by surrender of the prin-cipality of Antioch; may the Lord aid this countto remember and understand fully what we aregoing to write to him. Let this count recollectour late expedition well; our ravage of his fieldsinto their very hearts, the desolation we havespread over his provinces, our devastation of histillage and sown lands, our ruin to the inhabitants ;how we swept the churches clean from the faceof the ground; how our wheels have passed overwhere mansions smiled until that inauspiciousday; how we have raised out into the sea a penin-sula of crowds of corpses massacred by us—all themen, but the children were carried off into capti-vity ; how the free have been made slaves—thetimber cut down, except what we left for our ownmachines of war when we return, please God, to be-siege your present asylum; how we plundered yourriches, and those of your subjects, including yourwomankind and their cubs, and the beasts of bur-den ; how those of our soldiers who were unmarried,