[Footnote 52: Prcoopius, (de Bell. Persico, l. i. c. 28,)
Evagrius, (l. vi. c. 21,) and Pocock, (Specimen, p. 72, 86,)
attest the human sacrifices of the Arabs in the vith
century. The danger and escape of Abdallah is a tradition
rather than a fact, (Gagnier, Vie de Mahomet, tom. i. p. 82
- 84.)]