[Footnote 28: Voyage de Benjamin de Tudele, tom. i. c. 5, p.
44 - 52. The Hebrew text has been translated into French by
that marvellous child Baratier, who has added a volume of
crude learning. The errors and fictions of the Jewish rabbi
are not a sufficient ground to deny the reality of his
travels. Note: I am inclined, with Buegnot (Les Juifs
d'Occident, part iii. p. 101 et seqq.) and Jost (Geschichte
der Israeliter, vol. vi. anhang. p. 376) to consider this
work a mere compilation, and to doubt the reality of the
travels. - M.]