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| | Travels in Arabia, by John Lewis Burckhardt (chapter15) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | El Melek Nasir eddyn Abou el Maaly, Sultan of Egypt, carried with him, on his pilgrimage in A.H. 719, five hundred camels, for the transport of sweetmeats and confectionary only; and two hundred and eighty for pomegranates, almonds, and other fruits: in his travelling larder were one thousand geese, and three thousand fowls. |
 | | The Syrian caravan is very well regulated, though, as in all matters of oriental government, the abuses and exceptions are numerous. |
 | | [Makrisi states, in his treatise on the Khalifes who performed the Hadj, that in A.H. 724, a negro king called Mousa arrived at Cairo on his way to Mekka, and was splendidly entertained by Kalaoun, then Sultan of Egypt. |
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