ASTONISHMENT OF THE CRUSADERS AT THE WEALTH OF THE EAST
Book II.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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ASTONISHMENT OF THE CRUSADERS AT THE WEALTH OF THE EAST

At the sight of an apartment filled with riches, Bohemond, prince of Tarentum, said; "There is here enough to conquer kingdoms with ." The Emperor Alexis, wished to bribe him, immediately ordered them to be conveyed to the tent of ambitions Bohemond, who at first refused them with a kind modesty, and finished by accepting them with joy. . . . An abode at Byzantium might become otherwise dangerous for the Crusaders; the spectacle of the luxury of the East, which they beheld for the first time, was calculated to corrupt them. The Christian knights were never weary of admiring the palaces, the splendid edifices, the riches, and perhaps the beautiful women of whom Alexis had spoken in his letters addressed to the princes of the West. - Book II

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