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A still more interesting Aboo was Aboo Obaida, 
one of three eminent men of the same name, son of 
the glorious Mussaoa, and father of the never-to-be- 
forgotten Mohktaur. In a.d. 1634, this extraordi- 
nary Aboo was entrusted with the command of an 
expedition to invade Persia, and proved himself one 
of the bravest, though not the most discreet, of all 
the Aboos that have ever lived. After distinguish- 
ing himself by some of the most glorious feats of 
arms which emblazon the pages of Moslem history, 
Aboo Obaida succeeded in establishing himself on 
the banks of the Euphrates, and pitched his camp 
immediately opposite to that of the Persian army, 
leaving only the breadth of the river between the two 
great hostile multitudes. Now the Persian forces 
amounted, according to the most credible authorities, 
to eighty thousand, while those of Aboo were but 
nine thousand ; but notwithstanding this, to others, 
appalling numerical disparity, Aboo forced the pas- 
sage of the river, and gave battle to his enemy. Each 
hero who composed an unit in the incomparable 
troops of Aboo was at all times prepared and eager 
to engage ten hostile men ; but they all confessed 
themselves quite unaccustomed to encounter hostile 
elephants ; and when the advance of the Persian line 
was seen covered by an innumerable array of those 
warlike animals, something like confusion and dismay 
was to be detected in the conduct of Aboo’s followers. 
Ever fearless, however, that godlike chief smiled upon 
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