Waiter , secretary Bohadiu, " in the fields of Acre afflicted with a most cruel disease, with boils from the middle of his body to his knees, so that be could not sit down, but only recline on his side when he entered into his tent, yet he went about to the stations nearest to the enemy, arranged his troops for battle, and rode about from dawn till eve, now to the right wing, then to the left, and then to the centre, patiently enduring the severity of his pain." ... . " Ο God," says his enthusiastic biographer, " thou knowest that he put forth and lavishly expended all his energies and strength towards the protection and the triumph of thy religion ; do thou therefore, Ο Lord, have mercy upon liitu.''* At this fanions siege died the Patriarch Heraclius.f * Bohadiit, con. v. vi. t L'un ile vcrif. torn. i. ρ 207.