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participated in that common sorrow. Only inproportion of each one’s faith and piety, was hisdeep affliction; the deeper, the more religious.To restore the cross and one thousand six hundredFrank prisoners and pay two hundred thousandpieces of gold.—All to be the price of the city andtheir mere lives, and all the human creatures with-in Acre the hapless to remain as security in thevictors’ hands until full execution of the treaty.—Such the substance of the capitulation, sworn toalready and hostages given . 1

“As for me,’’ says Boha-eddin, “ I remained thewhole time close to Saladin, and tried to consolehis anguish, which was like that of a mother forthe death of her only son. I conjured him to turnhis thoughts rather towards how to save Jerusalemand Palestine.” The historian Emad-eddin, whowas also present, tells us of the soldan’s greatsorrow. Nor did they as yet know the hard con-ditions. “ It was God’s decree! Towards eveningSaladin shut himself up in his tent, full of blackthoughts. Consolation was feeble, and hope hadflown far off. In the morning we returned to seehim, and found him dejected and unquiet as theevening before. We said, Islam has not perished,

1 Arab. Chion., 317.