ch longer
time elapsed (p. 198 &c.)--M.]

[Footnote 179: I have abridged the interesting narrative of Ockley,
(tom. ii. p. 170-231.) It is long and minute: but the pathetic, almost
always, consists in the detail of little circumstances.]

[Footnote 1791: The account of Hosein's death, in the Persian Tarikh
Tebry, is much longer; in some circumstances, more pathetic, than that
of Ockley, followed by Gibbon. His family, after his defenders were all
slain, perished in succession before his eyes. They had been cut off
from the water, and suffered all the agonies of thirst. His eldest son,
Ally Akbar, after ten different assaults on the enemy, in each of which
he slew two or three, complained bitterly of his sufferings from heat
and thirst. "His father arose, and introducing his own tongue within
the parched lips of his favorite child, thus endeavored to alleviate his
sufferings by the only means of which his enemies had not yet been able
to deprive him." Ally was slain and cut to pieces in his sight: this
wrung from him his first and only cry; then it was that his sister
Zeyneb rushed from the tent. The rest, including his nephew, fell in
succession. Hosein's horse was wounded--he fell to the ground. The hour
of prayer, between noon and sunset, had arrived; the Imaun began the
religious duties:--as Hosein prayed, he heard the cries of his infant
child Abdallah, only twelve months old. The child was, at his desire,
placed on his bosom: as he wept over it, it was transfixed by an arrow.
Hosein dragged himself to the Euphrates: as he slaked his burning
thirst, his mouth was pierced by an arrow: he drank his own blood.
Wounded in four-and-thirty places, he still gallantly resisted. A
soldier named Zeraiah gave the fatal wound: his head was cut off by
Ziliousheng. Price, p. 402, 410.--M.]

[Footnote 180: Niebuhr the Dane (Voyages en Arabie, &c., tom. ii. p.
208, &c.) is, perhaps, the only European traveller who has dared to
visit Meshed Ali and Meshed Hosein. The two sepulchres are in the hands
of the Turks, who tolerate and tax the devotion of the Persian heretics.
The festival of the death of Hosein is amply described by Sir John
Chardin, a traveller whom I have often praised.]

When the sisters and children of Ali were brought in chains to the
throne of Damascus, the caliph was advised to extirpate the enmity of
a popular and hostile race, whom he had injured beyond the hope of
reconciliation. But Yezid preferred the coun