I remember little of it.

At the door we kissed and parted weeping, and while the guard bowed before her, she blessed me beneath her breath.

A soldier stepped forward and said, 'Follow me, daughter of Sinan,' and I followed him, none taking any note, for at that hour, although perhaps you did not see it in your prisons, a strange shadow passed across the sun, of which all folk were afraid, thinking that it portended evil, either to Saladin or Ascalon.* [* The eclipse, which overshadowed Palestine and caused much terror at Jerusalem on 4th September, 1187, the day of the surrender of Ascalon.

-Author] "In the gloom we came to a place, where was an old Arab among some trees, and with him two led horses.

The soldier spoke to the Arab, and I gave him Masouda's letter, which he read.