1; in Maracci, tom.ii.p.

688.) This figure of rhetoric has been converted into a fact, which is said to be attested by the most respectable eye-witnesses, (Maracci, tom.ii.p.

690.) The festival is still celebrated by the Persians, (Chardin, tom.iv.

p.
201;) and the legend is tediously spun out by Gagnier, (Vie de Mahomet, tom.i.p.

183-234,) on the faith, as it should seem, of the credulous Al Jannabi.