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CHAP. X. THE MIRACLE OF THE MOUNTAIN
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to the spot which the Calif had pointed out ! And when
the Calif and all his Saracens beheld, they stood amazed
at the wonderful miracle that God had wrought for the
Christians, insomuch that a great number of the Saracens
became Christians. And even the Calif caused himself
to be baptised in the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Ghost, Amen, and became a Christian,
but in secret. Howbeit, when he died they found a
little cross hung round his neck ; and therefore the
Saracens would not bury him with the other Califs, but
put him in a place apart. The Christians exulted greatly
at this most holy miracle, and returned to their homes
full of joy, giving thanks to their Creator for that which
He had done.'
And now you have heard in what wise took place
this great miracle. And marvel not that the Saracens
hate the Christians ; for the accursed law that Ma-
hommet gave them commands them to do all the
mischief in their power to all other descriptions of
people, and especially to Christians ; to strip such of
their goods, and do them all manner of evil, because
they belong not to their law. See then what an evil
law and what naughty commandments they have ! But
in such fashion the Saracens act, throughout the world.
Now I have told you something of Baudas. I could
easily indeed have told you first of the affairs and the
customs of the people there. But it would be too long a
business, looking to the great and strange things that
I have got to tell you, as you will find detailed in this
Book.
So now I will tell you of the noble city of Tauris.
No'rE I.—We may remember that at a date only three years before Marco related this story (viz. in 1295), the cottage of Loreto is asserted to have changed its locality for the third and last time by moving to the site which it now occupies.
Some of the old Latin copies place the scene at Tauris. And I observe that a
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