So it is, that to this very purpose the Sire de Joinville, as credible a witness as any other whatever, tells us of the Bedouins, a nation amongst the Saracens, with whom the king St. Louis had to do in the Holy Land, that they, in their religion, so firmly believed the number of every man's days to be from all eternity prefixed and set down by an inevitable decree, that they went naked to the wars, excepting a Turkish sword, and their bodies only covered with a white linen cloth:
Hainbat, non gai beroni buruz, Joinvilleko jaunak, beste edozein bezain lekuko sinesgarria baita, aipatzen baitigu bediunoez, mairuekin nahasi herria, haiekin gudukatu baitzuen San Luis erregek, beren erlijioan hain bermeki sinesten dutela bakoitzaren egunak betierekotasun orodanik aitzinezarriak eta zenbatuak direla aurreko arau itzurezin batez, non gerrara baitoaz biluzik, ezpata turkiar bat salbu, eta gorputza oihal zuri batez estalirik.