cident a means which might be turned to good account. He sent twelve men to the church, and from morning till night they dug in vain. But at length Peter himself, leaping into the hole they had made, called aloud on Grod to redeem his promise, and produced a rusty spear-head. Adhémar acquiesced with the best grace in his power ; the lance was exhibited to the people the next morning, and the enthusiasm of the army, famished, and ragged, and dismounted, once more beat as high as when they sewed the red Cross badge upon their shoulders, and shouted " Dieu le veut." They had been besieged three weeks ; all their horses, except three hundred, were killed. Their ranks were grievously thinned, but they went out to meet the enemy with such confidence that the only orders given related to the distribution of the plunder. As they took their places in the plain, Adhémar raised their spirits by the announcement of another miracle, Saint George, Saint Maurice, and Saint Demetrius, had themselves been distinctly seen to join the army, and were in their midst. The Christians fought as only religious enthusiasts can fight—as the Mohammedans fought when the Caliph Omar led his conquering bands northwards, with the delights of heaven for those who fell, and the joys of earth for those who survived. The Turks were routed with enormous slaughter. Their camp, rich and luxurious, fell into the hands of the conquerors ;* plenty took the place of starvation ; the common soldiers amused themselves with decking their persons with the silken robes they found in the huts ; the cattle were driven to the town in long processions; and once • * Among the spoils taken by the Christians one of the chroniclers, reports a mass of manuscripts, " on which were traced the sacrilegious rites of the Mahometans in execrable characters," doubtless Arabic. Probably among these manuscripts were many of the greatest importance. Nothing is said about their fate, but of course they were all destroyed.