ABSTRACT
And when the field was being searched I had taken four Greeks to mercy, whom I found in a house, and they were poor men who had been at Gallipoli. And I told them I would treat them very well if they would be m y spies. And they agreed with great joy and I dressed them very well in the Greek fashion and gave each of them one of our horses, which we had just taken, and they swore they would serve me well and loyally. And, at once, I sent two of them to Adrianople to see what the Emperor’s son was doing, and the other two I sent to Constantinople. And, within a few days, those that had gone to the son of the Emperor returned, and said he was marching against us with seventeen thousand horse and full a hundred thousand foot, and that he had already left Adrianople.
