South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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brethren of the progeny of Mahomet, who is subject - Page 97
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It Is Under The Dominion Of A Sultan, One Of Four Brethren Of The Progeny Of Mahomet, Who Is Subject To The Soldan Of Egypt, But His Other Three Brothers Are Continually At War With Him.

On the 18th day of May, descending from the before-mentioned road obliquely into the plain, we came to Mecca by the north side.

On the south side of the city there are two mountains very near each other, having a very narrow intervening valley, which is the way leading to Mecca on that side. To the east there in a similar valley between two other mountains, by which is the road to a mountain where they sacrifice to the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac, which hill or mount is ten or twelve miles from Mecca, and is about three stone throws in height, being all of a stone as hard as marble, yet is not marble. On the top of this mount is a temple or mosque, built after their manner, having three entrances. At the foot of the mountain are two great cisterns, which preserve water free from corruption: one of these is reserved for the camels belonging to the caravan of Cairo, and the other for that of Damascus. These cisterns are filled by rain water, which is brought from a great way off. We shall speak afterwards of the sacrifices performed at this mountain, and must now return to Mecca.

On our arrival we found the caravan from Memphis, or Babylon of Egypt, which had arrived eight days before us, coming by a different way, and consisted of 64,000 camels, with a guard of an hundred Mamelukes.

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