Note 109 — Chapter X · CAMPAIGN OF KHALID IN IRAC. A.H. XII. A.D. 633.
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No elephant had ever been seen before at Medîna, and only one at Mecca—‘the year of the elephant’ marking the era of Abraha’s attack (Life of Mahomet, p. xxvi.). The astonishment of the women and children of Medîna was unbounded, and some inquired in childish amazement whether it was an artificial thing, or really was a work of nature.