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Turks, and, by counteraction, restore confidence to the crusaders. "One
evening," says William of Tyre, "whilst everybody was, as usual,
occupied in getting supper ready, Bohemond ordered some Turks who had
been caught in the camp to be brought out of prison and put to death
forthwith; and then, having had a huge fire lighted, he gave
instructions that they should be roasted and carefully prepared as if
for being eaten. If it should be asked what operation was going on, he
commanded his people to answer, 'The princes and governors of the camp
this day decreed at their council that all Turks or their spies who
should henceforth be found in the camp should be forced, after this
fashion, to furnish meat of their own carcasses to the princes as well
as to the whole army!'" "The whole city of Antioch," adds the
historian, "was stricken with terror at hearing the report of words so
strange and a deed so cruel. And thus, by the act and pains of
Bohemond, the camp was purged of this pest of spies, and the results of
the princes' meetings were much less known amongst the foe."

Bohemond did not confine himself to terrifying the Turks by the display
of his barbarities; he sought and found traitors amongst them. During
the incidents of the siege he had concocted certain relations with an
inhabitant of Antioch, named Ferouz or Emir-Feir, probably a renegade
Christian and seeming Mussulman, in favor with the Governor Accien or
Baghisian, who had intrusted to him, him and his family, the ward of
three of the towers and gates of the city. Emir-Feir, whether from
religious remorse or on promise of a rich recompense, had, after the
ambiguous and tortuous conversations which usually precede treason, made
an offer to Bohemond to open to him, and, through him, to the crusaders,
the entrance into Antioch. Bohemond, in covert terms, informed the
chiefs, his comrades, of this proposal, leaving it to be understood that,
if the capture of Antioch were the result of his efforts, it would be for
him to become its lord. The count of Toulouse bluntly rejected this
idea. "We be all brethren," said he, "and we have all run the same risk;
I did not leave my own country, and face, I and mine, so many dangers to
conquer new lord-ships for any particular one of us." The opinion of
Raymond prevailed, and Bohemond pressed the matter no more that day. But
the situation became more and more urgent; and armies of Mussulmans were
preparing to com