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 bid to search for it, who, bringing out these eleven names one after another, in seeming indignation, rent them all to pieces, and catching the favourite by the band, where the name of Christ was concealed, opened it, and held it op to the Mogul, without tearing the same. Upon which the Mogul gave his keeper a pension, calling him the Divining Ape. The truth whereof, saith Mr Terry, chaplain to Sir Thomas Row, was confirmed by several persons of different religions.

Q. Is there not a strange relation of an apparition that happened at Mahomet’s tomb?

A. Mr Knowles, in his history of the Turks, affirms as a certain truth, that, in 1620, a surprising vision was seen at Medina, in Arabia, where Mahomet lies buried, which continued twenty days, terrifying the whole country. On September the 20th in that year, a great tempest of wind, rain, and thunder happened about midnight; but when the sky became clear, the people might plainly read in it, in Arabian characters, these words:— “Oh! why will ye believe in lies?” And between two and three in the morning, appeared a woman cloathed in white, seeming to he compassed with the sun, having a cheerful countenance, with a book in her hand. Over against her were seven armies of Turks, Persians, Arabians, and other Mahometans, in battle array, ready to fight with her, but the keeping her station, only opened the book: at which the armies fled, and presently all the lamps about Mahomet’s tomb went put. For when the vision vanished, an hour before sun-rising, a murmuring wind was heard, to which they imputed the extinguishing of the lamps.

Q. What events happened thereupon?

A. The ancient pilgrims of Mahomet’s race were