...doubted in Syria nor thought strange. I never was myself in a caravan reduced to such an expedient; but 1 had the less reason to distrust the report of others,...stomachs. (Sale, Koran, p. 164; Gibbon, Decline and Full of the Roman Empire, vp 245.)" ' On my return from the East Indies, in 1789, hearing accidentally...

...to invention. It may perhaps be superfluous to produce the authority of an Arab historian (Beklawi), who, in his account of the Prophet's Expedition to...distresses of the army, that they were reduced to the neacssity of killing their camels for the sake of the water contained in their stomachs. (Sale, Koran,...

...commonly received notion, that travelling Arabs, in their distress for want of water, are frequently reduced to the necessity of killing their camels, for the sake of finding a supply in the stomach. This, however, is an expedient which never came under the observation...

...invention. It may, perhaps, be superfluous to produce the authority of an Arab historian, (Beidaw), who, in his account of the Prophet's expedition to...the sake of the water contained in their stomachs." Daubenton found in the stomach of a camel which had been dead ten days, about three pints of clear...

...superfluous to produce the authority of an Arab historian, who, in his account of the Prophet's expeditiou to Tabuc against the Greeks, relates, among other...the sake of the water contained in their stomachs." To this testimony we may add that of Brnco : " Finding, therefore, the camels would not rise, we killed...

...historian, who, in his account of the Prophet's expedition to Tabuc against tho Greeks, relates, amoug other distresses of the army, that they were reduced...necessity of killing their camels for the sake of tko water contained iu their stomachs." To this testimony we may add that of Bruce : "TTinding, therefore,...