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Such a goat as had just been killed, fed up to 

 the high condition he was in, could not have been 

 bought in the market for less than ^en ahmulahs, 

 two shillings and twopence. The skin alone, 

 however, is supposed to be worth three ahmulahs; 

 and great care is taken not to injure it with the 

 point of the knife, when flaying the carcase. 

 To be of any value, it must be taken off 

 uncut, except around the neck, and in those 

 situations necessary to enable the butchers to 

 draw the legs out of the skin. Also, of course, 

 where the first incision is made to commence the 



killed by the Jews may be partaken of by Mahomedans. A represen- 

 tation to the Cadi of Cairo having been made, that nearly all the 

 butchers of that city were followers of the law of Moses, they 

 were about to be suspended from that employment, when their Chief 

 Rabbi proved to the satisfaction of their Moslem judges, that the 

 Koran bids Mahomedans not to refuse food which has been 

 sanctified to the one true God, which was always done by those 

 who professed the faith of Abraham and the law of Moses, when 

 killing animals for food. This circumstance, and also the disre- 

 spect shown by the Whaabbees to the tomb of the Prophet, and the 

 temple at Mecca, demonstrate to my satisfaction that education 

 alone is required to show to the Mahomedans, the absurdity of the 

 false hopes with which their Prophet has surrounded the worship of 

 the only one God, and of the inapplicability of his laws to improve 

 or humanize mankind. I could point out, if this were a proper 

 place, proofs without end, of the liberality and extreme toleration 

 of learned and enlightened Mahomedans, and we ought not to 

 attribute the bigotry of ignorance, alike fierce and cruel in Christian, 

 Mahomedan, and Jew, to their religious belief, which on 

 examination will be found to have been originally very similar 

 amongst all these denominations, and that the greatest differences 

 appear to be in the several codes of social laws adopted by each. 

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