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Borderlands of Christendom produced some of the toughest soldiers, frontiersmen who specialized themselves in conducting daring raids into enemy territory. This is how 13th century Catalan chronicler Bernard Desclot described almogàvers who specialized in cross-border raids against Muslim Granada: "These men, called almogàvers, live only by their weapons. They do not live in villages or cities but rather in the mountains and forests. They fight every day with the Saracens, entering into their lands for a day or two, raiding and seizing many people and goods, and that is how they live. They endure many terrible things that other men cannot: they go many days without eating, and survive on grass at no harm to themselves. The adalids who guide them know the lands and the paths. They wear no more than a tunic (gonella) and a shirt in summer or winter. On their legs, they wear leather pants; and on their feet, leather sandals. They carry a good knife and scabbard, strapped to their belts. Each one has a javelin, two arrows, and a leather purse to carry food. They are very strong and very fast to flee and chase."