Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . e besiegersstill remained. This made the Damascenes despair,and the troops regretted that they had shut them-selves up in the city. Now it so happened that achild was born to the Patrician who was governorof Damascus. He, in conséquence, gave a banquet,and in conséquence of the feasting the soldiersneglected their stations. None of the Moslems per-ceived this except Khalid, who neither took norallowed others any rest, nor sufïered anything thatwas going on in the town to escape him. Keen ofvision, he was always attentive to that on which hewas engaged. He had
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . e besiegersstill remained. This made the Damascenes despair,and the troops regretted that they had shut them-selves up in the city. Now it so happened that achild was born to the Patrician who was governorof Damascus. He, in conséquence, gave a banquet,and in conséquence of the feasting the soldiersneglected their stations. None of the Moslems per-ceived this except Khalid, who neither took norallowed others any rest, nor sufïered anything thatwas going on in the town to escape him. Keen ofvision, he was always attentive to that on which hewas engaged. He had prepared a set of rope-ladders with nooses. When evening was come, hewith a pîcked party started out, taking the lead him-self, with al-Kaka, son of Amr, and Madhur, son ofAdi, and some other men of the same stamp, who hadserved him on similar enterprises before. Their in-structions to their followers were to wait until theyheard the cry, Allah Akbar (God is greatest!) fromthe walls, when they should make for the gâte. [408].
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