llowers settled in parts of Syria and Kurdistan. He
adds that, in the year 1252, Alaue, lord of the Tartars of
the Levant, made war against the Old Man, and slaughtered
him with many of his followers. Yule gives a long list of
murders or attempts at murder ascribed to the Assassins.
Saladin's life was attempted in 1174-6. Prince Edward of
England was slain at Acre in 1172. The sect is not quite
extinct. They have spread to Bombay and Zanzibar, and number
in Western India over 50,000. The mention of the Old Man of
the Mountain will recall to the reader the story of Sinbad
the Sailor in _The Arabian Nights_.]

[Footnote 59: See Parchi, _Caphtor wa-pherach_, an
exhaustive work on Palestine written 1322, especially chap.
xi. The author spent over seven years in exploring the
country.]

[Footnote 60: Socin, the author of Baedeker's _Handbook to
Palestine and Syria_, p. 557, gives the year of the
earthquake 1157. It is referred to again p. 31. There was a
very severe earthquake in this district also in 1170, and
the fact that Benjamin does not refer to it furnishes us
with another _terminus ad quem_.]

[Footnote 61: See the narrative of William of Tyre.]

[Footnote 62: Gubail, the ancient Gebal, was noted for its
artificers and stonecutters. Cf. I Kings v. 32; Ezek. xxvii.
9. The Greeks named the place Byblos, the birthplace of
Philo. The coins of Byblos have a representation of the
Temple of Astarte. All along the coast we find remains of
the worship of Baal Kronos and Baaltis, of Osiris and Isis,
and it is probable that the worship of Adonis and
Jupiter-Ammon led Benjamin to associate therewith the
Ammonites. The reference to the children of Ammon is based
on a misunderstanding, arising perhaps out of Ps. lxxxiii.
8.]

[Footnote 63: _The Quarterly Statements of the Palestine
Exploration Fund_ for 1886 and 1889 give a good deal of
information concerning the religion of the Druses. Their
morality is there described as having been much maligned.]

[Footnote 64: Tyre was noted for its glass-ware and sugar
factories up to 1291, when it was abandoned by the
Crusaders, and destroyed by the Moslems.]

[Footnote 65: This name is applied to the Kishon, mentioned
further on, celebrated in Deborah's song (Judg. v. 21), but