On the fifth day he came to
the foot of the mountain of Wallachia, to a city called Euloi, which
Johannizza had newly repeopled with his folk. And when the people of
the land saw the host coming, they abandoned the city, and fled into
the mountains.
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THE E MPEROR'S FORAGERS SUFFER LOSS
The Emperor Henry and the host of the French encamped before the city;
and the foraging parties overran the land and captured oxen, and cows,
and beeves in great plenty and other beasts. And those from
Adrianople, who had brought their chariots with them, and were poor
and illfurnished with food, loaded their chariots with corn and other
grain; and they found also provisions in plenty and loaded with them,
in great quantities, the other chariots that they had captured. So the
host sojoumed there for three days; and every day the foraging parties
went foraging throughout the land; but the land was full of mountains,
and strong defiles, and the host lost many foragers, who adventured
themselves madly.
In the end, the Emperor Henry sent Anscau of Cayeux to guard the
foragers, and Eustace his brother, and Thierri of Flanders, his
nephew, and Walter of Escomai, and John Bliaud. Their four battalions
went to guard the foragers, and entered into a land rough and
mountainous. And when their people had overrun the land, and wished to
return, they found the defiles very well guarded. For the Wallachians
of the country had assembled, and fought against them, and did them
great hurt, both to men and horses.
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