Note 413 — THE HISTORY OF ABU NIYYAH AND ABU NIYYATAYN.[394]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
For “his flesh was crushed upon his bones,” a fair specimen of Arab. metonomy-cum-hyperbole. In the days when Mr. John Bull boasted of his realism versus Gallic idealism, he “got wet to the skin” when M. Jean Crapaud was mouillé jusqu’aux os.
For the Angels supposed to haunt a pure and holy well, and the trick played by Ibn Túmart, see Ibn Khaldun’s Hist. of the Berbers, vol. ii. 575.