To the wilderness2, but ’twas with arms.
PARADISE REGAINED3.
The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained4 its highest point in the horizon, when a knight5 of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.
The warlike pilgrim had toiled7 among cliffs and precipices8 during the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those rocky and dangerous defiles9, he had entered upon that great plain, where the accursed cities provoked, in ancient days, the direct and dreadful vengeance10 of the Omnipotent11.
The toil6, the thirst, the dangers of the way, were forgotten, as the traveller recalled the fearful catastrophe12 which had converted into an arid13 and dismal14 wilderness the fair and fertile valley of Siddim, once well watered, even as the Garden of the Lord, now a parched15 and blighted16 waste, condemned17 to eternal sterility18.
Crossing himself, as he viewed the dark mass of rolling waters, in colour as in duality unlike those of any other lake, the traveller shuddered19 as he remembered that beneath these sluggish20 waves lay the once proud cities of the plain, whose grave was dug by the thunder of the heavens, or the eruption21 of subterraneous fire, and whose remains22 were hid, even by that sea which holds no living fish in its bosom23, bears no skiff on its surface, and, as if its own dreadful bed were the only fit receptacle for its sullen24 waters, sends not, like other lakes, a tribute to the ocean. The whole land around, as in the days of Moses, was “brimstone and salt; it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth thereon.” The land as well as the lake might be termed dead, as producing nothing having resemblance to vegetation, and even the very air was entirely26 devoid27 of its ordinary winged inhabitants, deterred28 probably by the odour of bitumen29 and sulphur which the burning sun exhaled30 from the waters of the lake in steaming clouds, frequently assuming the appearance of waterspouts. Masses of the slimy and sulphureous substance called naphtha, which floated idly on the sluggish and sullen waves, supplied those rolling clouds with new vapours, and afforded awful testimony31 to the truth of the Mosaic32 history.
Upon this scene of desolation the sun shone with almost intolerable splendour, and all living nature seemed to have hidden itself from the rays, excepting the solitary33 figure which moved through the flitting sand at a foot’s pace, and appeared the sole breathing thing on the wide surface of the plain. The dress of the rider and the accoutrements of his horse were peculiarly unfit for the traveller in such a country. A coat of linked mail, with long sleeves, plated gauntlets, and a steel breastplate, had not been esteemed34 a sufficient weight of armour35; there were also his triangular36 shield suspended round his neck, and his barred helmet of steel, over which he had a hood37 and collar of mail, which was drawn38 around the warrior’s shoulders and throat, and filled up the vacancy39 between the hauberk and the headpiece. His lower limbs were sheathed40, like his body, in flexible mail, securing the legs and thighs41, while the feet rested in plated shoes, which corresponded with the gauntlets. A long, broad, straight-shaped, double-edged falchion, with a handle formed like a cross, corresponded with a stout42 poniard on the other side. The knight also bore, secured to his saddle, with one end resting on his stirrup, the long steel-headed lance, his own proper weapon, which, as he rode, projected backwards43, and displayed its little pennoncelle, to dally44 with the faint breeze, or drop in the dead calm. To this cumbrous equipment must be added a surcoat of embroidered45 cloth, much frayed46 and worn, which was thus far useful that it excluded the burning rays of the sun from the armour, which they would otherwise have rendered intolerable to the wearer. The surcoat bore, in several places, the arms of the owner, although much defaced. These seemed to be a couchant leopard47, with the motto, “I sleep; wake me not.” An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced48 the painting. The flat top of his cumbrous cylindrical49 helmet was unadorned with any crest50. In retaining their own unwieldy defensive52 armour, the Northern Crusaders seemed to set at defiance53 the nature of the climate and country to which they had come to war.
The accoutrements of the horse were scarcely less massive and unwieldy than those of the rider. The animal had a heavy saddle plated with steel, uniting in front with a species of breastplate, and behind with defensive armour made to cover the loins. Then there was a steel axe54, or hammer, called a mace55-of-arms, and which hung to the saddle-bow. The reins56 were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle57 was a steel plate, with apertures58 for the eyes and nostrils59, having in the midst a short, sharp pike, projecting from the forehead of the horse like the horn of the fabulous60 unicorn61.
But habit had made the endurance of this load of panoply62 a second nature, both to the knight and his gallant63 charger. Numbers, indeed, of the Western warriors64 who hurried to Palestine died ere they became inured65 to the burning climate; but there were others to whom that climate became innocent and even friendly, and among this fortunate number was the solitary horseman who now traversed the border of the Dead Sea.
Nature, which cast his limbs in a mould of uncommon66 strength, fitted to wear his linked hauberk with as much ease as if the meshes67 had been formed of cobwebs, had endowed him with a constitution as strong as his limbs, and which bade defiance to almost all changes of climate, as well as to fatigue68 and privations of every kind. His disposition69 seemed, in some degree, to partake of the qualities of his bodily frame; and as the one possessed70 great strength and endurance, united with the power of violent exertion71, the other, under a calm and undisturbed semblance25, had much of the fiery72 and enthusiastic love of glory which constituted the principal attribute of the renowned73 Norman line, and had rendered them sovereigns in every corner of Europe where they had drawn their adventurous74 swords.
It was not, however, to all the race that fortune proposed such tempting75 rewards; and those obtained by the solitary knight during two years’ campaign in Palestine had been only temporal fame, and, as he was taught to believe, spiritual privileges. Meantime, his slender stock of money had melted away, the rather that he did not pursue any of the ordinary modes by which the followers76 of the Crusade condescended78 to recruit their diminished resources at the expense of the people of Palestine — he exacted no gifts from the wretched natives for sparing their possessions when engaged in warfare79 with the Saracens, and he had not availed himself of any opportunity of enriching himself by the ransom80 of prisoners of consequence. The small train which had followed him from his native country had been gradually diminished, as the means of maintaining them disappeared, and his only remaining squire81 was at present on a sick-bed, and unable to attend his master, who travelled, as we have seen, singly and alone. This was of little consequence to the Crusader, who was accustomed to consider his good sword as his safest escort, and devout82 thoughts as his best companion.
Nature had, however, her demands for refreshment83 and repose84 even on the iron frame and patient disposition of the Knight of the Sleeping Leopard; and at noon, when the Dead Sea lay at some distance on his right, he joyfully85 hailed the sight of two or three palm-trees, which arose beside the well which was assigned for his mid-day station. His good horse, too, which had plodded86 forward with the steady endurance of his master, now lifted his head, expanded his nostrils, and quickened his pace, as if he snuffed afar off the living waters which marked the place of repose and refreshment. But labour and danger were doomed87 to intervene ere the horse or horseman reached the desired spot.
As the Knight of the Couchant Leopard continued to fix his eyes attentively88 on the yet distant cluster of palm-trees, it seemed to him as if some object was moving among them. The distant form separated itself from the trees, which partly hid its motions, and advanced towards the knight with a speed which soon showed a mounted horseman, whom his turban, long spear, and green caftan floating in the wind, on his nearer approach showed to be a Saracen cavalier. “In the desert,” saith an Eastern proverb, “no man meets a friend.” The Crusader was totally indifferent whether the infidel, who now approached on his gallant barb89 as if borne on the wings of an eagle, came as friend or foe90 — perhaps, as a vowed91 champion of the Cross, he might rather have preferred the latter. He disengaged his lance from his saddle, seized it with the right hand, placed it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse’s mettle92 with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger with the calm self-confidence belonging to the victor in many contests.
The Saracen came on at the speedy gallop93 of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by his limbs and the inflection of his body than by any use of the reins, which hung loose in his left hand; so that he was enabled to wield51 the light, round buckler of the skin of the rhinoceros94, ornamented95 with silver loops, which he wore on his arm, swinging it as if he meant to oppose its slender circle to the formidable thrust of the Western lance. His own long spear was not couched or levelled like that of his antagonist96, but grasped by the middle with his right hand, and brandished97 at arm’s-length above his head. As the cavalier approached his enemy at full career, he seemed to expect that the Knight of the Leopard should put his horse to the gallop to encounter him. But the Christian98 knight, well acquainted with the customs of Eastern warriors, did not mean to exhaust his good horse by any unnecessary exertion; and, on the contrary, made a dead halt, confident that if the enemy advanced to the actual shock, his own weight, and that of his powerful charger, would give him sufficient advantage, without the additional momentum99 of rapid motion. Equally sensible and apprehensive100 of such a probable result, the Saracen cavalier, when he had approached towards the Christian within twice the length of his lance, wheeled his steed to the left with inimitable dexterity101, and rode twice around his antagonist, who, turning without quitting his ground, and presenting his front constantly to his enemy, frustrated102 his attempts to attack him on an unguarded point; so that the Saracen, wheeling his horse, was fain to retreat to the distance of a hundred yards. A second time, like a hawk103 attacking a heron, the heathen renewed the charge, and a second time was fain to retreat without coming to a close struggle. A third time he approached in the same manner, when the Christian knight, desirous to terminate this illusory warfare, in which he might at length have been worn out by the activity of his foeman, suddenly seized the mace which hung at his saddle-bow, and, with a strong hand and unerring aim, hurled104 it against the head of the Emir, for such and not less his enemy appeared. The Saracen was just aware of the formidable missile in time to interpose his light buckler betwixt the mace and his head; but the violence of the blow forced the buckler down on his turban, and though that defence also contributed to deaden its violence, the Saracen was beaten from his horse. Ere the Christian could avail himself of this mishap105, his nimble foeman sprung from the ground, and, calling on his steed, which instantly returned to his side, he leaped into his seat without touching106 the stirrup, and regained all the advantage of which the Knight of the Leopard hoped to deprive him. But the latter had in the meanwhile recovered his mace, and the Eastern cavalier, who remembered the strength and dexterity with which his antagonist had aimed it, seemed to keep cautiously out of reach of that weapon of which he had so lately felt the force, while he showed his purpose of waging a distant warfare with missile weapons of his own. Planting his long spear in the sand at a distance from the scene of combat, he strung, with great address, a short bow, which he carried at his back; and putting his horse to the gallop, once more described two or three circles of a wider extent than formerly107, in the course of which he discharged six arrows at the Christian with such unerring skill that the goodness of his harness alone saved him from being wounded in as many places. The seventh shaft108 apparently109 found a less perfect part of the armour, and the Christian dropped heavily from his horse. But what was the surprise of the Saracen, when, dismounting to examine the condition of his prostrate110 enemy, he found himself suddenly within the grasp of the European, who had had recourse to this artifice111 to bring his enemy within his reach! Even in this deadly grapple the Saracen was saved by his agility112 and presence of mind. He unloosed the sword-belt, in which the Knight of the Leopard had fixed113 his hold, and, thus eluding114 his fatal grasp, mounted his horse, which seemed to watch his motions with the intelligence of a human being, and again rode off. But in the last encounter the Saracen had lost his sword and his quiver of arrows, both of which were attached to the girdle which he was obliged to abandon. He had also lost his turban in the struggle.
These disadvantages seemed to incline the Moslem115 to a truce116. He approached the Christian with his right hand extended, but no longer in a menacing attitude.
“There is truce betwixt our nations,” he said, in the lingua franca commonly used for the purpose of communication with the Crusaders; “wherefore should there be war betwixt thee and me? Let there be peace betwixt us.”
“I am well contented,” answered he of the Couchant Leopard; “but what security dost thou offer that thou wilt117 observe the truce?”
“The word of a follower77 of the Prophet was never broken,” answered the Emir. “It is thou, brave Nazarene, from whom I should demand security, did I not know that treason seldom dwells with courage.”
The Crusader felt that the confidence of the Moslem made him ashamed of his own doubts.
“By the cross of my sword,” he said, laying his hand on the weapon as he spoke118, “I will be true companion to thee, Saracen, while our fortune wills that we remain in company together.”
“By Mohammed, Prophet of God, and by Allah, God of the Prophet,” replied his late foeman, “there is not treachery in my heart towards thee. And now wend we to yonder fountain, for the hour of rest is at hand, and the stream had hardly touched my lip when I was called to battle by thy approach.”
The Knight of the Couchant Leopard yielded a ready and courteous119 assent120; and the late foes121, without an angry look or gesture of doubt, rode side by side to the little cluster of palm-trees.
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| n.（鱼钩等的）倒钩，倒刺 | |
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mettle
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rhinoceros
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mishap
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formerly
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artifice
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Moslem
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courteous
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| v.批准，认可；n.批准，认可 | |
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