[638] Est., ll. 2194-5.
[639] Bohadin, 221.
[640] Est., ll. 2305-8.
[641] Gesta, 168; R. Howden, iii. 112. These writers say Richard camped outside the city, and place the affair of the dromond on the next day, June 7. But the Estoire distinctly locates the meeting with the dromond between Beyrout and Sidon. R. Diceto, ii. 94, dates it June 6, which is doubtless correct. Bohadin’s date, June 11 (p. 220), is impossible. Ambrose goes on to say that after the wind changed the king “jut devant Sor cil nuitie” (l. 2308); for which the Itin. has “proxima nocte ante Tyrum fixis anchoris classis persistebat” (p. 210).
[642] Est., ll. 2309-12.
[643] Ibn Djobeïr, Recueil, Hist. Orientaux, iii. 450.
[644] Ib.
[645] See descriptions in Archer, Crusade of Richard I, 373, and Crusades, 317, 318.
[646] The Est., ll. 2753, 2754, says four hundred knights and seven thousand foot. The Itin., 61, says seven hundred knights, besides other fighting men, and that with these “non prorsus ad novem millia robur numeratum excrevit.”
[647] “Un samedi al seir,” Est., l. 2372; date from Itin., 211, R. Diceto, ii. 94, Gesta, 169.