[Footnote 141: In excluding the Christians from the
peninsula of Arabia, the province of Hejaz, or the
navigation of the Red Sea, Chardin (Voyages en Perse, tom.
iv. p. 166) and Reland (Dissertat. Miscell. tom. iii. p. 61)
are more rigid than the Mussulmans themselves. The
Christians are received without scruple into the ports of
Mocha, and even of Gedda; and it is only the city and
precincts of Mecca that are inaccessible to the profane,
(Niebuhr, Description de l'Arabie, p. 308, 309, Voyage en
Arabie, tom. i. p. 205, 248, &c.)]