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up Christians, at most, fell into slavery, and aboutfive thousand infants.

“ Certainly this is very unlike the exterminationof the first crusade, but here there was a capitu-lation, and there the city was taken by storm.Nor was it a cold delicacy in Saladin, that engagedhim to defer his triumphal occupation of Jerusalemtill after the Christians had gone. A few days sufficedfor the mass of the population. Those who choseto linger, were present at the entry certainly, norcould the Moslem army wait longer under the walls.It would have been unjust. Indeed the pomp of theMahometans was very splendid when they entered.Then, with the single exception of the Holy Se-pulchre, all the churches were turned into mosques;that of Omar washed with rose-water fromDamascus, and embellished as before. Inhabitants,law, religion, all is changed in unhappy Jerusalem.Name it as you will, it has wholly vanished. Likethose other boasts of antiquity, it no longer exists.It is lost for ever and ever! And please yourGrace, all is over, all is lost with it. As for me,I have experienced nothing but kindness, from thatcoinpletest of defeats at Hattim (which in truth wasthe downfall of the holy city) to this moment; forwhen all that care and skill could do for me in thehospital had been done, Saladin ordered me to