Excerpt from The Conquest of JerusalemThe emotion, the heat, and the fasting had been too much for him. He wanted to be in the fresh air and alone. But outside in the enclosed court a similar crowd of ardent worshippers Of all races pressed round the movable altars, and prostrated themselves before the tabernacles made from palm-leaves. The officiating priests had to restrict the movements of their arms, and the thurifers, for lack of room, shook their censers up and down instead of swinging them, hundreds of eyes following the bluish fumes ecstatically as they ascended straight to the blue sky above.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.