[Footnote 40: A familiar tale in Voltaire's Zadig (le Chien
et le Cheval) is related, to prove the natural sagacity of
the Arabs, (D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient. p. 120, 121.
Gagnier, Vie de Mahomet, tom. i. p. 37 - 46: ) but
D'Arvieux, or rather La Roque, (Voyage de Palestine, p. 92,)
denies the boasted superiority of the Bedoweens. The one
hundred and sixty-nine sentences of Ali (translated by
Ockley, London, 1718) afford a just and favorable specimen
of Arabian wit.]