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Stories of Adventure, Told by Adventurers
Stories of Adventure Told by Adventurers Author:Edward Everett Hale Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BERTRANDON IN PALESTINE. WHEN the children met him the next week, Uncle Fritz said that as they had gone so far east in Jheir two afternoons, they would d... more »o well to look over ome of the accounts of the Crusaders' expeditions. The boys were well pleased at this suggestion. Some of them knew Froissart, and all of them had read "Ivanhoe," and "The Talisman," and "Count Robert of Paris." So Uncle Fritz sent again for the " Travels in Palestine," in the same volume of Bonn's Antiquarian Library, and Bedford first, and Esther afterward, read the extracts he had marked for them from BERTRANDON DE LA BROCQUIERE. To animate and inflame the hearts of such noble men as may be desirous of seeing the world, and by the order and command of the most high, most powerful, and my most redoubted lord, Philip, by the grace of God Duke of Burgundy, Lorraine, Brabant, and Lim- bourg, Count of Flanders, Artois, and Burgundy, Palatine of Hainault, Holland, Zealand, and Namur, Marquis of the Holy Empire, lord of Friesland, Salines, and Mechlin, I, Bertrandon de la Brocquiere, a native of the duchy of Guienne, lord of Vieux-Chateau, counsellor and firstesquire-carver to my aforesaid most redoubted lord, after bringing to my recollection every event, in addition to what I had made an abridgment of in a small book by way of memorandums, have fairly written out this account of my short travels, in order that if any king or Christian prince should wish to make the conquest of Jerusalem, and lead thither an army overland, or if any gentleman should be desirous of travelling thither, they may be made acquainted with all the towns, cities, regions, countries, rivers, mountains, and passes, in the different districts as well as the lords to whom they belong, from the duchy of Burgundy to Jerusale...« less