When the caliph arrived near the town he waited three days and they gave him food and barley.
This same caliph again gathered together a host and fell upon our people.
These, possibly the remnants of a quay, were all that remained of the times before the advent of the caliphs.
Beneath one of these domes the caliph was entertained with excellent sherbet, with sweetbreads stewed in milk of almonds, and other delicacies of which he was amazingly fond.
