• The Saladin of the Crusades. See Gibbon, Chap. LIX . Dante also makes mention of him, as worthy of affectionate remembrance, in the Convito , IV 2. Mr. Cary quotes the following passage from Knolles’s History of the Turks , page 57:⁠— “About this time (1193) died the great Sultan Saladin, the greatest terror of the Christians, who, mindful of man’s fragility and the vanity of worldly honors, commanded at the time of his death no solemnity to be used at his burial, but only his shirt, in manner of an ensign, made fast unto the point of a lance, to be carried before his dead body as an ensign, a plain priest going before, and crying aloud unto the peopie in this sort, ‘Saladin, Conqueror of the East, of all the greatness and riches he had in his life, carrieth not with him anything more than his shirt.’ A sight worthy so great a king, as wanted nothing to his eternal commendation more than the true knowledge of his salvation in Christ Jesus. He reigned about sixteen years with great honor.” The following story of Saladin is from the Cento Novelle Antiche . Roscoe’s Italian Novelists , I 18:⁠— “On another occasion the great Saladin, in the career of victory, proclaimed a truce between the Christian armies and his own.