. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... and the interjDreters of every tongue. But in this con-flux of nations, every vice was proj^agated and practiced The city had many sovereigns and no government. The Kingsof Jerusalem and Cyprus, of the house of Lusignan, the Princesof Antioch, the Counts of Tripoli and Sidon, the Great Mas-ters of the Hospital, the Temple, and the Teutonic order, therepublics of Venice, Genoa, and Pisa
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... and the interjDreters of every tongue. But in this con-flux of nations, every vice was proj^agated and practiced The city had many sovereigns and no government. The Kingsof Jerusalem and Cyprus, of the house of Lusignan, the Princesof Antioch, the Counts of Tripoli and Sidon, the Great Mas-ters of the Hospital, the Temple, and the Teutonic order, therepublics of Venice, Genoa, and Pisa, the Popes legate, theKings of France and England, assumed an independent com-mand ; seventeen tribunals exercised the power of life anddeath; every criminal was protected in the adjacent quarter;and the perpetual jealousy of the nations often burst forth inacts of violence and blood. adventurers, who disgracedthe ensign of the Cross, compensated their want of pay by theplunder of the Mohammedan villages: nineteen Syrian mer-chants, who traded under the public faith, were despoiled andhanged by the Christians, and the denial of satisfaction justi- Judges, i., 31. - Acts, xxi., 7. * French of FKOM DAX TO , 439 fied the arms of the Sultan Khalil. He marched against Acreat the head of 60,000 horse and 140,000 foot; his train ofartillery (if I may use the expression) was numerous andweighty; the separate timbers of a single engine were trans-ported in 100 wagons; and the royal historian Abulfeda, whoserved with the troops of Ilamah, was himself a spectator ofthe holy war. Whatever might be the vices of the Franks,their courage was rekindled by enthusiasm and despair; butthey were torn by the discord of seventeen chiefs, and over-Avhelmed on all sides by the powers of the sultan. After asiege of 33 days the double wall was forced by the Moslems,the i^rincipal tower yielded to their engines, the Mamelukesmade a general assault, the city was stormed, and death
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