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offering up prayers, which is situated about a quarter 
of a league from the first, and is called Djamaa Ibra- 
him, or the Mosque of Abraham. 
It was upon Mount Arafat that the common father 
of all mankind met Eve after a long separation; and it 
is on that account that it is called Arafat, that is to say, 
gratitude. It is believed that it was Adam himself who 
built this chapel. 
The ritual commands, that after having repeated 
the afternoon prayer, which we did in our tents, we 
should repair to the foot of the mountain, and wait 
there the setting of the sun. The Wehhabites, who 
were encamped at great distances, with a view to obey 
this precept, began to approach, having at their head 
the Sultan Saaoud, and Abounocta their second chief; 
and in a short time I saw an army of forty-five thousand 
men pass before me, almost all of whom were mount- 
ed upon camels and dromedaries, with a thousand 
camels carrying water, tents, fire- wood, and dry grass 
for the camels of the chiefs. A body of two hundred 
men on horseback carried colours of different kinds, 
fixed upon lances. This cavalry, I was informed, be- 
longed to Abounocta. There were also eight or ten 
colours among the camels, but without any other cus- 
tomary appendage. All this body of men, entirely 
naked, marched in the same order that I have formerly 
remarked. 
It was impossible for me exactly to distinguish the 
Sultan and the second chief, for they were naked as 
well as the rest. However, I believe that a venerable 
old man, with a long white beard, who was preceded 
by the royal standard, was Saaoud. This standard was 
green, and had, as a mark of distinction, the profession 
of his faith, " La illaha ila Allah," " There is no other 
