After the consent of Beatrice, countess of Edessa and her children was won and a treaty agreed with the Byzantines, he undertook to bring all those wishing to leave Tell Bashir to safety in Antioch, handing the castles to the Byzantines, though he doubted whether the latter could defend them for long. On the appointed day he took to Tell Bashir his own troops, some Antiochenes, Raymond II of Tripoli and his men, and the Byzantine garrisons. There they gathered Latins and Armenians of both sexes who wanted to leave, each with as much baggage as could be carried. The Byzantine garrisons were handed the following fortresses: Tell Bashir, 'Ayn Tab, Ravendal, Ranculat, Bile (al-Bira), Samosata, and maybe others. [We seem to observe the handover at Tell Bashir and 'Ayn Tab: presumably different arrangements were made elsewhere.] The Christian column, weighed down with baggage, first met Nur al-Din at Tulupa, near Tell Bashir; from there to 'Ayn Tab both armies were in battle formation, and fighting seemed likely; but unexpectedly the Christians reached 'Ayn Tab safely, and exhausted people and animals had a night's rest. At a meeting in the evening, Baldwin refused the requests of some magnates, notably Humphrey of Toron from Jerusalem and Robert of Sourdeval from Antioch, to take over 'Ayn Tab and defend it against the Turks from their own resources. He did not believe this possible, so kept the treaty and handed it to the Byzantines