[Footnote 72: I am not at leisure to pursue the fables or
conjectures which name the strangers accused or suspected by
the infidels of Mecca, (Koran, c. 16, p. 223, c. 35, p. 297,
with Sale's Remarks. Prideaux's Life of Mahomet, p. 22 -
27. Gagnier, Not. ad Abulfed. p. 11, 74. Maracci, tom. ii.
p. 400.) Even Prideaux has observed, that the transaction
must have been secret, and that the scene lay in the heart
of Arabia.]