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[FN#374] About noontide he entered Bilbays-city, [FN#375] where

he dismounted and stayed awhile to rest himself and his mule and

ate some of his victual. He bought at Bilbays all he wanted for

himself and forage for his mule and then fared on the way of the

waste. Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa'adiyah

[FN#376] where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum

and ate; then he spread his strip of silk on the sand and set the

saddle-bags under his head and slept in the open air; for he was

still overcome with anger. When morning dawned he mounted and

rode onward till he reached the Holy City, [FN#377] Jerusalem,

and thence he made Aleppo, where he dismounted at one of the

caravanserais and abode three days to rest himself and the mule

and to smell the air.