[37] The accounts of different writers vary considerably, but one of the lowest estimates states that nearly 200,000 men, among whom were six archbishops, and many bishops and nobles of high rank, perished before the walls of Acre.

[38] Roger of Hoveden states that 5,000 infidels were thus destroyed. Other accounts give even a larger number.

[39] "El Gootz," or "The Blessed City," is the Arab name of Jerusalem to this day.

[40] The Arabic word "Sheikh," translated by the Crusaders "Old Man," means also the chief of a tribe.

[41] "Of a very agreeable appearance."

[42]

"As the rose is the flower of flowers,

So is this the house of houses."

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