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123 DEATH OF HENRY IV. 123 try. With this corps he rapidly descended the cuAPXEa Pyrenees, by the way of Mancanara, in the face of '. — a driving tempest, which concealed him for some time from the view of the enemy. The latter, during their protracted operations, for nearly three months, had sustained a serious diminution of num- bers in their repeated skirmishes with the besieged, and still more from an epidemic which broke out in their camp. They also began to suffer not a little from want of provisions. At this crisis, the appari- tion of this new army, thus unexpectedly descend- ing on their rear, filled them with such consterna- tion, that they raised the siege at once, setting fire to their tents, and retreating with such precipita- tion as to leave most of the sick and wounded a prey to the devouring element. John marched out, with colors flying and music playing, at the head of his little band, to greet his deliverers ; and, after an affecting interview in the presence of the two armies, the father and son returned in triumph into Perpignan. *^ The French armv, reinforced by command of Treaty '' "^ between Louis, made a second ineffectual attempt (their Iragon. """^ own writers call it only a feint) upon the city ; and ^sJ^^• the campaign was finally concluded by a treaty be- tween the two monarchs, in which it was arranged, that the king of Aragon should disburse within the year the sum originally stipulated for the services rendered him by Louis in his late war with his 15 Zurita, Anales, torn. iv. fol. 106. — L. Marineo. Cosas Memora- 196. — Barante, Hist, des Dues bles, fol. 149. — Alonso de Palen- de Bourgogne, torn. x. pp. 105, cia, Cor6nica,MS.,cap. 70, 71, 72.