THE CRUSADERS CROSSING MOUNT TAURUS
Book II.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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THE CRUSADERS CROSSING MOUNT TAURUS

Terror opened to the pilgrim all the passages of Mount Taurus. Throughout their triumphant march the Christians had nothing to dread but famine, the heat of the climate, and the badness of the roads. They had, particularly, much to suffer in crossing a mountain situated between Coxon and Marash, which their historians denominate "THE MOUNTAIN OF THE DEVIL." This mountain was very steep, and offered only one narrow path, in which the foot soldiers marched with difficulty ; the horses, which could not keep their footing, dragged each other down the abysses ; and the army lost a great part of its baggage. In the course of this disastrous march, says an historian who was an eye-witness, the soldiers gave themselves up to despair, and refused to proceed. Being encumbered with their arms, they either sold them at a low price or cast them down the precipices. On all sides were to be seen warriors wounded by their frequent falls, and pilgrims exhusted with fatique, who could not continue their route, and filled the air and mountains with their cries and groans. - Book II

*Notes; page 274

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