Note 72 — BOOK II.

The contemporary historians who have spoken of the crusades, and who have made this enumeration, had doubtless in their minds the numbering which is found in Scripture, which makes the number of the soldiers of Israel amount to six hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred and fifty. I believe I ought to add some passages from the historians: Si omnes qui de domibus suis egressi votum jam iter ceperant, simul illuc adessent, procul dubio sexagies centum millia bellatorum adessent.—Foulcher de Chartres. Opinionem hominum vincebat numerus, quamvis æstimarentur sexagies centum millia itinerantium.—Malmesbury, book iv.