"And their joy was heightened by the subjugation of the island of Cypruss, by King Richard ; a place so useful and necessary to them, andAne which would be of the utmost service to the army. As a further proof of the exultation of their hearts, and to illume the darkness of the night, wax torches, and naming lights sparkled in pro-fusion, so that night seemed to be usurped by the bright-ness of the day, and the Turks thought the whole valley was on fire." CHAPTER VII. "Out upon the fool! Go speak thy comforts To spirits tame and abject as thyself; They make me mad !" BAILLI m. FROM the port of Acre, the great plain of Esdraelon stretches east to the Lake of Gennesareth, dividing the country into two parts. This plain has been the Aceldama of the nations that have warred in Palestine. There the stare in their courses fought against Sisera, there Saul and his sons fled and fell down slain before the Philistines, there the good King Josiah was conquered by the Egyp-tians, and there the Christians and Moslems with deadly enmity contended for the sovereignty of the Holy Land. The city of Acre was the possession of the Infidels. Around it the besiegers, gathered out of every nation in Europe, lay in countless multitudes ; splendid pavilions, gorgeous ensigns, glittering weapons, and armorial cognizances of every hue and form that individual fancy and national peculiarity could suggest, studding the plain, with all the varied colors that light weaves upon the changing texture of autumn foliage. Beyond the beleaguering forces were encamped the sons of Islam, Turks, Tartars, Egyptians, and Bedouins, covering mountains, valleys, hills, and plains, with white and shining tents, while the black ban- BERENGARIA OF NAVARRE,