[Footnote 38: A census, or capitation, says Anastasius, (p.
156;) a most cruel tax, unknown to the Saracens themselves,
exclaims the zealous Maimbourg, (Hist. des Iconoclastes, l.
i.,) and Theophanes, (p. 344,) who talks of Pharaoh's
numbering the male children of Israel. This mode of
taxation was familiar to the Saracens; and, most unluckily
for the historians, it was imposed a few years afterwards in
France by his patron Louis XIV.]