. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. atified treaty, Richard againassumed the offensive, and sailing down the coastlaid siege to the castle of Darum, where the Crusad-ers unhappily proved that they had lost nothing oftheir usual savagery in dealing with vanquishedMoslems:— Those Turks whom our men found holding out onthe battlements they hurled down into the ditch there tobe dashed to pieces. The number of Turks slain in thedifferent parts of the castle was sixty. Those who hadtaken refuge in the tower, seeing that they were lost . .surrendered themselves to perpetual slavery on
. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. atified treaty, Richard againassumed the offensive, and sailing down the coastlaid siege to the castle of Darum, where the Crusad-ers unhappily proved that they had lost nothing oftheir usual savagery in dealing with vanquishedMoslems:— Those Turks whom our men found holding out onthe battlements they hurled down into the ditch there tobe dashed to pieces. The number of Turks slain in thedifferent parts of the castle was sixty. Those who hadtaken refuge in the tower, seeing that they were lost . .surrendered themselves to perpetual slavery on the Fri-day before Whit-Sunday. . On the Friday nightthe king made his men keep watch over the Turks whowere still in the Tower till early on the Saturday morn-ing. Then on Whitsun Eve the Turks, coming downfrom the Tower at the kings command, had their handsbound so tightly behind their backs with leathern thongsthat they roared for pain. They were three hundred innumber, not reckoning little children and women. Thus, * Baha-ed-din, COVER OF CASKET OF EL-ADIL.
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