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Title: Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Besant, Walter, 1836-1901 Palmer, Edward Henry, 1840-1882
Subjects: Jerusalem, history, travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner and Welford
Contributing Library: UCLA Library, Preservation Department
Digitizing Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles

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way; Europe looks with indifference upon theHoly Land ; Laodicea is taken ; Tripoli is taken ; and,lastly, Acre itself is taken. The siege of this, the lastplace held by the Christians, lasted a month, when theMohammedans entered the city, after a furious assault.They were driven back by arrows and stones hurledfrom the houses ; day after day they came on, wererepelled with slaughter, and every day the Christianssaw their camp growing larger and larger. Themilitary orders fought with a heroism which causedthe Saracens to think that two men were fighting inevery knight. But the end came at length, with a greatand terrible carnage. The nuns, trembling, and yetheroic, actually preserved their honour by cutting offtheir noses, so that the Saracens only killed them. The LATER PILGRIMS. 519 Patriarch of Jerusalem was put on board a ship, en-treating to be allowed to die with his flock. The shipsank, and he was drowned, so that his prayer wasgranted. A violent storm was raging. Ladies rushed
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to the port, offering the sailors all they had, diamonds,pearls, and gold, to be put on board. Those who hadno money or jewels were left on the shore to the merciesof the victors. The Templars held out in their castle afew days longer, and then surrendered. All were killed. 52o JERUSALEM. So ended, after two hundred years of continued fighting,the Christian settlements in Palestine.* The Westheard the news of the fall of Acre with a sort of un-reasoning rage, and instantly set about mutual accusa-tions as to the cause of its fall. And the wretchedPullani, the Syrian Christians, who had survived thetaking of Acre, dropped over one by one to Italy, andbegged their bread in the streets while they told thestory of their fall. Pilgrims and travellers continued to visit Jerusalem.Sir John Mandeville was there, early in the fourteenthcentury, and describes the churches and sacred sites, butsays little enough about the condition of the people.Bertrandon de la Roquiere was there a hundred year

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