[Footnote *: The account of Hosein's death, in the Persian
Tarikh Tebry, is much longer; in some circumstances, more
pathetic, than that of Ockley, followed by Gibbon. His
family, after his defenders were all slain, perished in
succession before his eyes. They had been cut off from the
water, and suffered all the agonies of thirst. His eldest
son, Ally Akbar, after ten different assaults on the enemy,
in each of which he slew two or three, complained bitterly
of his sufferings from heat and thirst. "His father arose,
and introducing his own tongue within the parched lips of
his favorite child, thus endeavored to alleviate his
sufferings by the only means of which his enemies had not
yet been able to deprive him." Ally was slain and cut to
pieces in his sight: this wrung from him his first and only
cry; then it was that his sister Zeyneb rushed from the
tent. The rest, including his nephew, fell in succession.
Hosein's horse was wounded - he fell to the ground. The
hour of prayer, between noon and sunset, had arrived; the
Imaun began the religious duties: - as Hosein prayed, he
heard the cries of his infant child Abdallah, only twelve
months old. The child was, at his desire, placed on his
bosom: as he wept over it, it was transfixed by an arrow.
Hosein dragged himself to the Euphrates: as he slaked his
burning thirst, his mouth was pierced by an arrow: he drank
his own blood. Wounded in four-and-thirty places, he still
gallantly resisted. A soldier named Zeraiah gave the fatal
wound: his head was cut off by Ziliousheng. Price, p. 402,
410. - M.]
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