Ch. XVI. Meanwhile, the petrariae of the Christians never ceased, day and night, to shake the walls; and when the Turks saw this, they were smitten with wonder, astonishment, terror, and confusion; and many, yielding to their fears, threw themselves down from the walls by night, and without waiting for the promised aid, very many sought, with supplications, the sacrament of baptism and Christianity.... Ch. XVII. Saladin, perceiving the dangers of delay, at length determined to yield to the entreaties of the besieged; he was, moreover, persuaded by his admirals, and his satraps, and his influential courtiers, who had many friends and kinsmen among the besieged. The latter alleged also, that he was bound to them on his promise made on the Mahometan law, that he would procure for them an honourable capitulation at the last moment, lest, perchance, made prisoners at discretion, they should be exterminated or put to an ignominious death, and thus the law of Mahomet, which had been strictly observed by their ancestors, be effaced by its dependence on him; and nevertheless very much would be derogated from his name and excellence if the worshippers of Mahomet should fall into the hands of Christians. They also begged to remind Saladin of the fact that they, a chosen race of Turks, in obedience to his commands, had been cooped up in the city, and withstood a siege for so long a time; they reminded him too, that they had not seen their wives and children for three years, during which period the siege had lasted; and they said that it would be better to surrender the city, than that people of such merit should be destroyed. The princes persuading the Sultan to this effect, that their latter condition might not be worse than their former one; he assented to their making peace on the best terms they could, and they drew up a statement of what appeared to them the most proper terms of treaty.... Ch. XVIII. Thus, after the Friday after the Translation of St. Benedict, the principal and noblest of the admirals were given and received as hostages, and the space of one month fixed for the delivery of the Cross and the collecting together of the captives. And when it was rumoured abroad that the city was to be given up, the common people, in their folly, were inflamed with fury, but the wiser portion rejoiced, at gaining so profitably and without danger, what they had been so long a time unable to obtain. Then was it proclaimed and prohibited by voice of herald, that any one should molest the Turks by word or deed, or provoke them by abuse, or that missiles should any longer be cast for the destruction of the walls or of the Turks who might be seen on the battlements. RETURN OF PHILIP (1191). +Source.+--_Geoffrey de Vinsauf_, Ch. XXI., _Chronicles of the Crusades_. Bohn's Libraries. G. Bell & Sons.