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and even the soldan felt sick . 1 So he and some Mos-lems retreated to another hill, the Karoula , a fewleagues from Acre . 2 In October not many troops re-mained near Acre; so the Christians employed thetime in cutting wide deep ditches and raising a highwall quite round their lines; with room behind it fora body of archers armed with the zemboureck , the qua -drellus of Ducange, the French carreau de la foudre.This weapon appeared a moment at Constantinopleamong the modern Greeks, but fell out of use.The Popes, from humanity, had prohibited it toall Christians; and we first hear of it at the siegeof Tyre by Saladin. Thence it went to Acre, andwhen Cceur de Lion came, he adopted it for someof his archers, which on his return to Europe scan-dalized the Christians, and it was considered a judg-ment on him that he was slain himself by a coupde carreau. Since the invention of gunpowderzemboureck (in some countries) means a kind oflight artillery or field piece . 3

Saladin’s sickness soon passed, since that verywinter we read of his being out hunting with hisfalcons . 4 The Moslems find it very curious ^that women (and dissolute ones too) wereallowed in the Christian army—but particularly

1 Arab. Chron., 253.3 Id. 255. Note.

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