Note 45 — THE VOYAGE OF BERNARD THE WISE.

This is the Egyptian Babylon, now Fostat, or, as it is often called, Old Cairo. Bagdad (Bagada) was, for many ages, the capital of the Saracen empire, and residence of the khalifs. It is doubtful what place is meant by Axinarri, which, in Mabillon's text, is called Axiam. [45]