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The Wazir encamped on the open space called Al-Hasa; [FN#454]

and, after pitching tents, said to his servants, "A halt here for

two days!" So they went into the city upon their several

occasions, this to sell and that to buy; this to go to the Hammam

and that to visit the Cathedral-mosque of the Banu Umayyah, the

Ommiades, whose like is not in this world. [FN#455] Ajib also

went, with his attendant eunuch, for solace and diversion to the

city and the servant followed with a quarter-staff [FN#456] of

almond-wood so heavy that if he struck a camel therewith the

beast would never rise again.