[Footnote 71: The count de Boulainvilliers (Vie de Mahomet,
p. 202 - 228) leads his Arabian pupil, like the Telemachus
of Fenelon, or the Cyrus of Ramsay. His journey to the
court of Persia is probably a fiction nor can I trace the
origin of his exclamation, "Les Grecs sont pour tant des
hommes." The two Syrian journeys are expressed by almost all
the Arabian writers, both Mahometans and Christians,
(Gagnier Abulfed. p. 10.)]