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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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66) troopers.

Yet the Mussulmans, in the field of Ohud, had no more than two horses, according to the better sense of Abulfeda, (in Vit.Moham.

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xxxi.p.

65.) In the Stony province, the camels were numerous; but the horse appears to have been less numerous than in the Happy or the Desert Arabia.] [Footnote 129: Bedder Houneene, twenty miles from Medina, and forty from Mecca, is on the high road of the caravan of Egypt; and the pilgrims annually commemorate the prophet's victory by illuminations, rockets, &c.

Shaw's Travels, p.


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