Hierosolem l i., and Sanutus Secreta Fidelium Crucis, l.iii.p.vi.vii.

viii.

ix.] [Footnote 59: Templarii ut apes bombabant et Hospitalarii ut venti stridebant, et barones se exitio offerebant, et Turcopuli (the Christian light troops) semet ipsi in ignem injiciebant, (Ispahani de Expugnatione Kudsitica, p.

18, apud Schultens;) a specimen of Arabian eloquence, somewhat different from the style of Xenophon!] [Footnote 60: The Latins affirm, the Arabians insinuate, the treason of Raymond; but had he really embraced their religion, he would have been a saint and a hero in the eyes of the latter.] [Footnote 601: Raymond's advice would have prevented the abandonment of a secure camp abounding with water near Sepphoris.

The rash and insolent valor of the master of the order of Knights Templars, which had before exposed the Christians to a fatal defeat at the brook Kishon, forced the feeble king to annul the determination of a council of war, and advance to a camp in an enclosed valley among the mountains, near Hittin, without water.