But Mahomet retained, and the Koran sanctions, (Sale's Koran, c.
5, in inlt.c.22, vol.ii.p.

171, 172,) the sacrifice of sheep and camels (probably according to the old Arabian rites) at Mecca; and the pilgrims complete their ceremonial with sacrifices, sometimes as numerous and costly as those of King Solomon.

Compare note, vol.iv.

c.
xxiii.p.96, and Forster's Mahometanism Unveiled, vol.i.p.

420.