[205] In Masudi’s “ Golden Prairies,” c. 93:—
وكثر الحريق والهدم ببغداد وعملت المنجنيقات نين القريقين
A large number of instances of the actual use of incendiaries in Asia will be found in General Maclagan’s “Early Asiatic Fire Weapons,” Jour. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, xlv. p. 30 ff.
[206] Shahnama, Mohl’s ed., vol. vi. p. 212, l. 628:—
همي قير و قروره انداحتند زدروازها جنك برساختبد
[207] Schefer, Chrestomathie Persane, i. 48-49.
[208] Reinaud and Favé, p. 65.
[209] William of Tyre, Hist., &c., Paris, 1844, p. 123.
[210] Bongars, Gesta Dei per Francos, p. 178.
[211] Albert d’Aix, in Reinaud and Favé, p. 62.