Note 307 — BOOK VII.

The continuator of Tabary speaks with much detail of this battle; the author of the Roudatain, in the description which he has given of this day, shows all the enthusiasm of a Mussulman. We find in these two histories, and even in Omad ’the secretary of Saladin), more words than things, more Oriental figures than historical circumstances. They may, however, be profitably consulted by comparing their accounts with those of the Latins.