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True, under the Egyptian califs its prosperity revived somewhat; for, under them, it remained the chief commercial center between the east and the west.

Salam, the traveler whom the calif sent to ascertain whether their accounts were true, traveled at the head of a caravan containing fifty men, and with camels bearing stores and provisions for a year.

Surely there could be nothing real like it since the days of the califs of Bagdad!

Twenty scholars in seven years might retrieve the worst losses we experience from the bigotry of popes and califs.

And King Marsil bids me say, thou shalt not blame him that his uncle the calif comes not too, for he is dead.