[Footnote 45: Both Pachymer (l. iii. c. 3, 4, 5) and Nic.
Greg. (l. iv. c. 7) understandand deplore the effects of
this dangerous indulgence. Bibars, sultan of Egypt, himself
a Tartar, but a devout Musulman, obtained from the children
of Zingis the permission to build a stately mosque in the
capital of Crimea, (De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iii. p.
343.)]