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Updated: May 17, 2025
Thus died Hassan, and thus ended the battle of Hattin, which broke the power of the Christians in the East. When Hassan was dead, at a sign from Saladin a captain of the Mameluks named Abdullah unfastened the jewel from the emir's turban and handed it to Wulf.
For even the Mameluks knew and loved these brethren who had been their officers, and praised the fierce charge that they had dared to make alone. Hassan sprang to the ground, saying: "Your horse is dead, Sir Wulf, so we must fight afoot." "Generous as ever," laughed Wulf. "Even the poisoned wine was a gift!" "If so, for the last time, I fear me," answered Hassan with a smile.
She dwelt in her own palace, whereof the walls were guarded night and day by a company of the Sultan's Mameluks, who knew that they were answerable for her with their lives. Within its walls, again, lived trusted eunuchs, under the command of a cunning fellow named Mesrour, and her retinue of women, all of them spies and watchful.
But no angels appeared in the brazen sky, and knowing that God had deserted them, they groaned aloud in their shame and wretchedness. "Come," said Godwin to Wulf in a strange, quiet voice. "We have seen enough. It is time to die. Look! yonder below us are the Mameluks, our old regiment, and amongst them Saladin, for I see his banner. Having had water, we and our horses are still fresh and strong.
They look to deceive and cut you down, kill Salah-ed-din, and escape by the further door. Can you hold your own awhile against eight men, think you?" "We have done so before and will try," answered Wulf. "But how shall we know that they are not Mameluks?" "Thus they will wish to pass the door, and you will say, 'Nay, sons of Sinan, whereon they will spring on you to kill you.
The ineffectual exertions of the Mameluks and Turks, instigated by Venice, to obstruct the Portuguese trade in India, will be afterwards mentioned. It is difficult to say what is meant by a cantarus in the text; perhaps a quintal or 100 pounds. The castor of the text, and other perfumes, may mean musk, civet, and ambergris.
Thereupon Saladin spoke a word, and while certain of his Mameluks engaged Godwin in front, keeping out of reach of that red and terrible sword, others crept up behind, and springing on him, seized his arms and dragged him to the ground, where they bound him fast.
Now, you are the officers of the bodyguard who watch in the ante-chamber to-night, are you not? Well, when the guard is changed at midnight, the eight men who should replace them at the doors of the room of Salah-ed-din will not arrive; they will be decoyed away by a false order. In their stead will come eight murderers, disguised in the robes and arms of Mameluks.
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