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and whoso entereth by that gate, is deservingof Paradise; that there is the throne of Solomon,the chapel of David, the fountain of Siloe com-parable to the river of Paradise. The Temple ofJerusalem is one of the three mosques of which theAlcoran speaks. Surely God will give it to us backin a finer state, since he honoured it with a noticein his Divine book.” 1

And the siege began; and was severe for a shorttime. All the medical men there were not suffi-cient for the wounded 2 writes an eye witness, whohad himself received a sore wound then, of whichhe was suffering still, when he wrote years after.But in less than four days 3 the citizens were drivento capitulate; and Saladin, with inward satisfac-tion, granted what he had offered from the first; 4and precisely on the first Friday of October, 1187,the Moslem standard was raised on its walls; butSaladin made his triumphal entrance several dayslater. 6 Yet sixty thousand, able to bear arms, aresaid to have been at that time within the city. 6

1 Arab. Chron., 206.

2 Coggleshale : 26.—Bib. Crois., i. 354.

3 Michaud seems for thirteen days : Hist., ii. 288. Note 1 ;but the Arab. Chron. says decidedly four; 209. Note.

4 Michaud : Hist., ii. 289. 6 Arab. C'hron., 210.

B Arab. Chron., 212.