The Patriarch Just Blew A Little Over The Cup
And Then Emptied It At A Draught, And Took No Harm.
His Holiness then on
his side demanded that the Chacham Bashi should quaff a cup to the health
of the Khalif, which he (the Patriarch) should first taste, and this the
Khalif found only fair and right.
But hardly had the Chacham Bashi put the
cup to his lips than he fell down and expired.' Still the Musulmans and
Jews thirsted for Christian blood. It happened at that time that a mass of
the hill Mokattani became loose and threatened to come down upon Babylon.
This was laid to the door of the Christians, and they were ordered to stop
it. The Patriarch in great distress has a vision that tells him summon the
saintly cobbler (of whom the same story is told as here) - the cobbler bids
the rock to stand still and it does so to this day. 'These two stories may
still be heard in Cairo' - from whom is not said. The hill that threatened
to fall on the Egyptian Babylon is called in Turkish Dur Dagh, 'Stay, or
halt-hill.' (L.c. April, 1878") - MS. Note, H. Y.
CHAPTER XI.
OF THE NOBLE CITY OF TAURIS.
Tauris is a great and noble city, situated in a great province called
YRAC, in which are many other towns and villages. But as Tauris is the
most noble I will tell you about it.[NOTE 1]
The men of Tauris get their living by trade and handi crafts, for they
weave many kinds of beautiful and valuable stuffs of silk and gold.
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