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In Chapter X Sayfi draws a terrible picture of the ruinous 

 condition to which the city was reduced by the disasters men- 

 tioned above. He names sixteen persons who survived the 

 general slaughter by taking refuge in the caves of the moun- 

 tains. These were subsequently joined by twenty-four more, 

 thus making the number saved forty. He describes how this 

 handful of survivors managed to subsist by plundering cara- 

 vans and by other lawless means, while, people of even distant 

 parts were reduced to eating the flesh of men, dogs, cats, etc. 



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