I Heard here, from many credible persons, that a certain Yahûdy was once come to them some years before, they thought from the coast; others said from Jerusalem. They had found a pleasure in the stranger's discourse; for he was of the Arabic tongue, one well studied therein and eloquent: also they heard from him many admirable things of the Jewish Scriptures, “which were not far from their own thoughts, and agreeable with many places of ‘God's word’.” Some of the principal persons had called him to eat with them. The Yahûy went upon a day to visit Medáin Sâlih, and returned saying, those old monuments were of the Nasâra, (neither Jew nor Mohammedan has any natural curiosity in architecture). They could not certainly tell me what became of him; some thought he had gone from them to Kheybar. Later at Teyma, the sheykh spoke to me of a stranger who had passed there not many years ago, and stayed a day or two in his house, “one who would not travel upon the sabt” (Sabbath). When afterwards I was at Kheybar, the villagers told me of a Yahudy, who came thither from el-Ally as they supposed; for Arabs, so remiss in the present, are commonly fatally incurious of all time past.