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of the Frank. Colonel Conder, who may perhaps have
Bomething of the warrior's appreciation of the soldier as
well as the man's admiration for the hero, is not sparing in
his eulogy : —

"Since Omar and Mohammed no Moslem like Saladin
had arisen, and after him none other such arose . ..
brave and just, merciful to all, tolerant even of Latin priests,
and wisely prudent as well as determined and active.
Among all who opposed him he found but one who was his
equal, in Richard Lion-Heart, the hero of the third Crusade."

If to speak Arabic makes an Arab, then the inhabitants
of Judaea are Arabs, but in no other sense. The Arab was
not here in the time of our Lord. He is to Palestine what
the Saxon is to Britain. Haroim er Raschid was contem-
porary with Egbert, Selim I, who brought in the Turkish
rule with Henry VIII. The Arab came in with the Kaliph
Omar, one of Mohammed's earlier converts, and what is left
of him is to be found mainly in the towns.
