FOOTNOTES:

[1] The month of Ramadhan was held as holy prior to Mohammed's time;
its sanctity was but confirmed by him.

[2] Medina at this time bore the name of Yathrib, but in this volume
we shall give it the later and better-known name of "Medina,"
derived from the earlier "Mahdinah."

[3] The Moslems _now_ assert that the sacred fire went out of itself
at the birth of Mohammed.

[4] A fourth, the "Darb-el-Sharki," or Eastern Road, has since been
built by order of the wife of the famous Haroun al Raschid.

[5] Joseph Pitts, A.D. 1680, says: "Mecca is surrounded for several
miles with many thousands of little hills which are very near to
one another. They are all stony-rock, and blackish, and pretty
near of a bigness, appearing at a distance like cocks of hay,
but all pointing towards Mecca."

[6] Burton says the black stone is volcanic, but is thought by some
to be a meteorite or aerolite. Burckhardt thought it composed of
lava. Of its appearance Ali Bey says: "It is a block of volcanic
basalt, whose circumference is sprinkled with little crystals,
with rhombs of tile-red feldspath on a dark background like
velvet or charcoal."

[7] By the latest statistics the number of Mohammedans now scattered
throughout Asia, Africa, and the south-eastern part of Europe
amounts to some 176,834,372.

[8] Moslems assert that upon this night Mohammed was carried through
the seven heavens of which El Islam tells.

[9] The initial "A" is placed at the top of all Arabian writings. It
is the initial of "Allah" and the first letter of the alphabet,
and is symbolic of the origin of creation.

[10] Burton gives seven hundred.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Obvious printing errors were repaired; these changes are listed below.

Title Page Original text: Elgin, Ill,
Correction: Elgin, Ill.,

Original text: David C Cook
Correction: David C. Cook

Chapter V Original text: may know thee as we should.'"
Correction: may know thee as we should."

Chapter VI Original text: This hullucination
Correction: This hallucination

Original text: McLellan, Psychology
Correction: McLellan, Psychology.

Original text: See page 23
Correction: See page 23.

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