The third, who was a boy, was with the sheik of Aglou, who said:
"I will not sell this one, for he has become as dear to me as a son." Then
addressing the young boy he said, "I wish to convert you; be a Mussulman."
The boy acquiesced and embraced Islamism. The day of his abjuration the
sheik killed in his honor an ox for a festival, and gave to the convert the
name of Mahomet. Then he sent to say to all his tribe:
"Come to my house. I have prepared a repast." The Mussulmans came and
diverted themselves with their horses and gunpowder. The chief told them,
"I have given a fourth of my possessions, a slave, and a servant to this
young man." He added, "He shall live with my son." They both occupied the
same room, and the master taught the young convert the whole Koran. The
Mussulmans called him Sidi Mahomet, son of AH. Seven Christians were
ransomed and sent back to their own country.
VI
Information about the country Tiznit: This place is a kind of a city
surrounded on all sides by a wall, and having only two gates. The water is
in the centre, in a fountain.
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