[683] “Le Balafré.”

[684] See the conflicting accounts in Itin., 229, Gesta, 175, and R. Howden, iii. 118, 119.

[685] Bohadin, 230, 235.

[686] See the various accounts of these negotiations in Bohadin, 235-7; Ibn Alathyr, Recueil des Hist. des Crois., Hist. Orient., II, i. 44-7; other Arab authorities collected in Abu Shama, ib., V, 22-5; Gesta and R. Howden, ll.cc.

[687] Gesta, 177, 178.

[688] Ib., 178.

[689] See [Note II] at end.

[690] Itin., 233.

[691] R. Devizes, 52.

[692] Itin., 233, 234. According to Bohadin, French ed. p. 238, this duty was entrusted to Conrad; the passage is omitted in the Leyden MS. edited by Schultens, but is reproduced in an emphatic form by Abu Shama (Recueil, Hist. Orient., V, 26).