[Footnote 20: Mirum dictu ex innumeris populis pars aequa in
commerciis aut in latrociniis degit, (Plin. Hist. Nat. vi.
32.) See Sale's Koran, Sura. cvi. p. 503. Pocock, Specimen,
p. 2. D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient. p. 361. Prideaux's Life
of Mahomet, p. 5. Gagnier, Vie de Mahomet, tom. i. p. 72,
120, 126, &c.]