Note 46 — CHAP. XIX.

I remember to have borrowed, while at Damascus, a small quarto volume, written in easy Arabic, without either title or conclusion, which contained a kind of history of the progress of the (ashab) early propagators of Mohammedism, and which enumerated, if I mistake not, a tribe under the denomination of Fûr فور among their adversaries, after the taking of Bahnesé in Middle Egypt, and their consequent invasion of the more Southern provinces.