Price, p.

402, 410 .-- M.] [Footnote 180: Niebuhr the Dane (Voyages en Arabie, &c., tom.ii.

p.
208, &c.) is, perhaps, the only European traveller who has dared to visit Meshed Ali and Meshed Hosein.

The two sepulchres are in the hands of the Turks, who tolerate and tax the devotion of the Persian heretics.
The festival of the death of Hosein is amply described by Sir John Chardin, a traveller whom I have often praised.] When the sisters and children of Ali were brought in chains to the throne of Damascus, the caliph was advised to extirpate the enmity of a popular and hostile race, whom he had injured beyond the hope of reconciliation.

But Yezid preferred the councils of mercy; and the mourning family was honorably dismissed to mingle their tears with their kindred at Medina.