ender. But why Godfrey of Bouillon and Hugh
brothers! Tancred is styled filius; of whom? Certainly not of Roger, nor
of Bohemond.]

[Footnote 85: Verumtamen dicunt se esse de Francorum generatione; et
quia nullus homo naturaliter debet esse miles nisi Franci et Turci,
(Gesta Francorum, p. 7.) The same community of blood and valor is
attested by Archbishop Baldric, (p. 99.)]

[Footnote 86: Balista, Balestra, Arbalestre. See Muratori, Antiq. tom.
ii. p. 517-524. Ducange, Gloss. Latin. tom. i. p. 531, 532. In the
time of Anna Comnena, this weapon, which she describes under the name
of izangra, was unknown in the East, (l. x. p. 291.) By a humane
inconsistency, the pope strove to prohibit it in Christian wars.]

[Footnote 87: The curious reader may compare the classic learning of
Cellarius and the geographical science of D'Anville. William of Tyre is
the only historian of the crusades who has any knowledge of antiquity;
and M. Otter trod almost in the footsteps of the Franks from
Constantinople to Antioch, (Voyage en Turquie et en Perse, tom. i. p.
35-88.) * Note: The journey of Col. Macdonald Kinneir in Asia Minor
throws considerable light on the geography of this march of the
crusaders.--M.]

To improve the general consternation, the cousin of Bohemond and
the brother of Godfrey were detached from the main army with their
respective squadrons of five, and of seven, hundred knights. They
overran in a rapid career the hills and sea-coast of Cilicia, from Cogni
to the Syrian gates: the Norman standard was first planted on the walls
of Tarsus and Malmistra; but the proud injustice of Baldwin at length
provoked the patient and generous Italian; and they turned their
consecrated swords against each other in a private and profane quarrel.
Honor was the motive, and fame the reward, of Tancred; but fortune
smiled on the more selfish enterprise of his rival. [88] He was called
to the assistance of a Greek or Armenian tyrant, who had been suffered
under the Turkish yoke to reign over the Christians of Edessa. Baldwin
accepted the character of his son and champion: but no sooner was he
introduced into the city, than he inflamed the people to the massacre
of his father, occupied the throne and treasure, extended his conquests
over the hills of Armenia and the plain of Mesopotamia, and founded the
first principality of the Franks or Latins, which subsisted fifty-four
years beyond the Euphrates. [89]

[Footnote 88: This detached c