We armed ourselves at nightfall, and came, a little after daybreak, to a plain lying before the city which is called Lelinas; and the ancient Scriptures call it Caesarea Philippi, n this city there springs up a fountain which is called Jor ; nd in the midst of the plain that lies before the city springs p another very beautiful fountain which is called Dan. nd it is so, that when the two rivulets issuing from these fountains come together, they call the river Jordan ; nd it is in that river that God was baptized.
By agreement between the Templars, Count Eu, the Hospitallers, and the barons of the land there present, it was elided that the king’s division in which division I then as, because the king had retained in his service the forty nights that were in my division and my Lord Geofiry of arsines, the right worthy man also, should set ourselves etween the castle and the city; that the barons of the land loud enter into the city by the left, and the Hospitallers v the right, and that the Templars should enter the city freight in front of us by the road from which we had come. We then moved forward so far, that we came before the tv; and we found that the Saracens that were in the city d discomfited the king’s sergeants, and driven them from e city. When I saw this I came to the right worthy men ho were with the Count of Eu, and said to them: “ Lords, you do not go where we have been ordered to go, between te city and the castle, the Saracens will slay all our people ho have entered into the city.” Our way was very perilous, bid the place to which we had to go was fraught with danger; tree were three pairs of dry walls that must needs be passed, id the slope was so steep that the horses could scarcely ep their footing; and the hillock we had to gain was owed with Turks on horseback.
While I was speaking to the Count of Eu and his knights, saw that our foot sergeants were breaking down the walls, ’hen I saw this, I said to those I was addressing that it had :en ordered that the king’s division should go thither, here the Turks were; and that as this had been ordered, I muld go. I turned, I and my two knights, towards those ho were pulling down the walls, and I saw a mounted sergeant who thought to pass over the wall, and his horse few upon him. When I saw this I dismounted, and took nu horse by the bridle. But, as God willed, when the Turk saw us coming, they abandoned the position we had t occupy. From this position the rock went down sheer hint the city.
