Note 117
From The Invasion of Egypt, part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

This curious anecdote will be vainly sought in the annals of Eutychius, and the Saracenic history of Elmacin. The silence of Abulfeda, Murtadi, and a crowd of Moslems, is less conclusive from their ignorance of Christian literature.

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