gives two leagues to Ohod and Ayr, which is much too far.  In our popular accounts, “Mohammed posted himself upon the hill of Ohod, about six miles from Al-Madinah,” two mistakes. [FN#17] They are said to be seventy, but the heaps appeared to me at least three times more numerous. [FN#18] A Zawiyah in Northern Africa resembles the Takiyah of India, Persia, and Egypt, being a monastery for Darwayshes who reside there singly or in numbers.  A Mosque, and sometimes, according to the excellent practice of Al-Islam, a school, are attached to it. [FN#19] Some historians relate that forty-six years after the battle of Ohod, the tombs were laid bare by a torrent, when the corpses appeared in their winding-sheets as if buried the day before.  Some had their hands upon their death wounds, from which fresh blood trickled when the pressure was forcibly removed.  In opposition to this Moslem theory, we have that of the modern Greeks, namely, that if the body be not decomposed within a year, it shows that the soul is not where it should be. [FN#20] In fairness I must confess to believing in the reality of these phenomena, but not in their “spiritual” origin. [FN#21] In Ibn Jubayr’s time the tomb was red. [FN#22] In the common tombs of martyrs, saints, and holy men, this covering is usually of green cloth, with long white letters sewn upon it.  I forgot to ask whether it was temporarily absent from Hamzah’s grave. [FN#23] All these erections are new.  In Burckhardt’s time they were mere heaps of earth, with a few loose stones placed around them.  I do not know what has become of the third martyr, said to have been interred near Hamzah.  Possibly some day he may reappear:  meanwhile the people of Al-Madinah are so wealthy in saints, that they can well afford to lose sight of one. [FN#24] Formerly in this place was shown a slab with the mark of a man’s head-like St. Peter’s at Rome-where the Prophet had rested.  Now it seems to have disappeared, and the tooth has succeeded to its honours. [FN#25] Some historians say that four teeth were knocked out by this stone.  This appears an exaggeration. [FN#26] In Persian characters the word Umr, life, and Umar, the name of the hated caliph, are written in the same way; which explains the pun. [FN#27] That is to say, “to the hour of death.” [FN#28] When Jubayr bin Mutim was marching to Ohod, according to the Rauzat al-Safa, in revenge for the death of his uncle Taymah, he offered manumission to his slave Wahshi, who was noted for the use of the Abyssinian spear, if he slew Hamzah.  The slave sat in ambush behind a rock, and when the hero had despatched one Siba’a bin Abd al-Ayiz, of Meccah, he threw a javelin which pierced his navel and came out of his back.  The wounded man advanced towards his assassin, who escaped.  Hamzah then fell, and his friends coming up, found him dead.  Wahshi waited till he saw an opportunity, drew the javelin from the body, and mutilated it, in order to present trophies to the ferocious Hinda (mother