They therefore
resolve to make another attempt upon the town of Mansoul, and that
by an army mixed and made up partly of doubters, and partly of
blood-men. A more particular account now take of both.
The doubters are such as have their name from their nature, as well
as from the land and kingdom where they are born: their nature is
to put a question upon every one of the truths of Emmanuel; and
their country is called the land of Doubting, and that land lieth
off, and farthest remote to the north, between the land of Darkness
and that called the 'valley of the shadow of death.' For though
the land of Darkness, and that called 'the valley of the shadow of
death,' be sometimes called as if they were one and the self-same
place, yet indeed they are two, lying but a little way asunder, and
the land of Doubting points in, and lieth between them. This is
the land of Doubting; and these that came with Diabolus to ruin the
town of Mansoul are the natives of that country.
The blood-men are a people that have their name derived from the
malignity of their nature, and from the fury that is in them to
execute it upon the town of Mansoul: their land lieth under the
dog-star, and by that they are governed as to their intellectuals.
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