THE HISTOK Y

OF THE ORDER OF

ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

BOOK I.— (CONTINUED.)

ABEYANCE THE FIRST.

Out on the pinnacle of the rock looking towardsJerusalem, about five miles from it, stood a horse-man, evidently Christian, from the setting beams ofa vivid October sun, a.d. 1187 (the very last day ofthat month, 1 for early in November Saladin wasbefore Tyre with his army), 2 which sun flashing on

1 Arab. Cbron., 219.

2 Arrivez sur un point eleve de la route; nous avons arrete noschevaux, et nos regards se sont reportes sur Jerusalem. Quelleprofonde detresse!—Michaud : Orient., iv. 297.—That GrandMaster Gardiner was quite a different man from Gardiner, Priorof England, is certain also from this latter’s baying been stillprior there in 1189.—Appendix, Hum. xxxvi.

VOL. II.

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