reliable eyes,"[146] nevertheless, who doubts those historians who
wrote the lives of the saints, who wrote down not only what they saw
with their own eyes, but what they drunk up from what others have
understood and told them? For if the narrator is reliable and, as
one reads, "testifies to what he saw and heard,"[147] then stories
told by those who speak the truth about events no one has seen are
clearly acceptable as true. If there is anyone who objects, and who
despises this undertaking, he has the option, if he wishes, of
offering corrections. Whoever is displeased with what we have done
may write his own version.

Thus the Lord's army, led by Raymond, Count of Saint-Gilles, Bohemund,
Godfrey, and many others, entered Armenia, rejoicing at the
possibility of Turkish attacks. On their way they took a fort which
was difficult to approach, so that any attempt to attack it seemed
futile. A pagan of that district, a certain Symeon, well known for
having Christian surname, asked our leaders for control of that area,
so that he could guard it against Turkish attacks. They did not
refuse the favor he requested, and he remained there, intending to
guard the land. Then our men moved on and reached Cappadocian
Caesarea.[148]After they left the province of Caesarea, they reached
a very lovely, wealthy city,[149] which the Turkish army had been
besieging for three weeks before the arrival of our army. But their
siege produced no results. When our men approached, the citizens
voluntarily surrendered the city. A certain knight called Peter of
the Alps asked that the leaders grant him the right to protect the
region in the name of the emperor of the Greeks and of our own
leaders. His request was willingly granted, since the meritorious
fidelity of the petitioner was well known. As the day then drew to a
close, Bohemund heard that a large but insignificant group of the