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"He shouted to us," says Burton, "'Defend yourself if you don't wish to be the meat of the Maghrabis! and to the enemy 'Dogs and sons of dogs! now shall you see what the children of the Arab are. 'I am Omar of Daghistan! 'I am Abdullah the son of Joseph! 'I am Sa'ad the Demon! we exclaimed." And, Burton, with his turbulent blood well stirred, found himself in the seventh heaven.
The names are much disfigured, and the commencement of the journey is not mentioned; but, from the course afterwards, this may be some corruption for Armenia, or one of its districts. Perhaps a corruption for Daghistan. Perhaps Kahira, or Cairo. Schildtberger, or his transcriber, calls this the town of Bursa, by mistake for the mountain of Al-Burs. Forst.
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