[853] “Ipse manibus aedificando,” Itin., 317. We shall presently find an unimpeachable eye-witness testifying to having seen the king performing a no less arduous manual labour at Darum.
[854] Imad-ed-Din, apud Abu Shama, 50.
[855] See William of Tyre’s description of Darum: “Castrum in Idumaea (ipsa est Edom) situm, trans torrentem illum qui dicitur Ægypti, qui etiam terminus est Palestinae et praedictae regionis,” lib. xx. c. 19. The earlier frontier—like the later one—was further to the south-west, and the “river of Egypt” then was the Wady el Arish, or, earlier still, another stream yet further westward.
[856] Est., ll. 8092-141; cf. Itin., 318, 319.
[857] Est., ll. 8143-54; Itin., 319, 320.
[858] Est., ll. 5329-50; Itin., 239. R. Coggeshall, 37, says 30,000 bezants.
[859] Est., ll. 8160-77; Itin., 320, 321.
[860] Est., ll. 8177-224; Itin., 321, 322.
[861] Est., 8225-34; Itin., 322, 323. The latter gives the date: “Rex ... postquam Achon pervenerat in crastino Cinerum, postera die,” etc. The morrow of Ash Wednesday 1192 was February 20.
[862] Est., ll. 8238-46; Itin., 323.