40--43) are our Moslem witnesses.

Of the Christian, Bernard Thesaurarius (c.

151--167) is the most copious and authentic; see likewise Matthew Paris, (p.

120--124.)] The nations might fear and hope the immediate and final expulsion of the Latins from Syria; which was yet delayed above a century after the death of Saladin.

[65] In the career of victory, he was first checked by the resistance of Tyre; the troops and garrisons, which had capitulated, were imprudently conducted to the same port: their numbers were adequate to the defence of the place; and the arrival of Conrad of Montferrat inspired the disorderly crowd with confidence and union.