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Nearly in front of the Bab-es'-Salam; and nearer to the Kaaba than any of the other surrounding buildings, stands the Makam Ibrahim. The stone is said to have yielded under the weight of the patriarch, and to preserve the impression of his foot still visible upon it; but no hadjy has ever seen it, as the frame is always entirely covered with a brocade of red silk richly embroidered.
They informed me that on the morrow they would crucify him on a cross of palm-wood, head downward." "And they executed Lebon?" Leclair shrugged his shoulders. "I suppose so," he answered with great bitterness. "I have never seen or heard of him since. As for me, they reserved me for some festivities at Makam Jibrail.
The traveller speaks also of the "Gate of Salvation," of the Makam Ibrahim, a monument containing the stone upon which Abraham sat when he was engaged in building the Kaaba, and where the marks of his knees may still be seen, and of all the buildings enclosed within the temple precincts. Judging from Burckhardt's minute and complete description, these spots still retain their former physiognomy.
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